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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I am going to get some experience on the bike and then do a few Olympic distance races.
Do we know what causes those cramps? They fucking suck.
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No idea. Usually it's towards the end of a swim workout and it's almost always my right calf when I'm pointing. I can generally feel one coming on about 25 yards before it happens and sometimes if I start pointing and flexing really quickly I can work it out before it starts. Sometimes, though, it's just a new and interesting part of a workout.
I do masters swimming about four times a week, and inevitably, it hits in the middle of a lane while I'm doing some drill with a person in front of me and a person behind me in the same lane. It's all I can do to get to the side of the pool and wave them on.
I don't think it's ever happened with any other kick than a freestyle flutter kick, though maybe once on backstroke, and I don't think it's ever happened on just a kicking drill.
