Confidence loss after swim
Did two runs this weekend and on the first day, the class 3 section I've ran a handful of times before, I took an inexplicably bad line and went for swim. Due to my "dense" build (pretty much a silverback gorilla) I upgraded my PFD to the Astral Indus a few days earlier and thank goodness I did. Got sucked into couple holes and had to fight hard to keep my head above water for long stretch. It was instant survival mode and made no effort to locate raft or paddle.
Once I was in calmer waters I was so exhausted it was difficult to swim to shore. Got my bearings and saw local whitewater company raft had my boat and paddle. They patiently waited until I caught breath and made way over and thanked them profusely.
Anyway, today I ran the river again (portaged the class 3 this time) but the whole run was miserable due to nerves. Even the small class twos might as well been class V monsters in my head and I found myself freezing rather than paddling through my lines.
Last time I had a bad swim it took a few weeks before I did some easy runs but the confidence did not return before winter came. After being months away from river I was anxious to get back out there and been tearing it up every weekend, but now I'm worried I won't get my mojo back.
How do you shake off a bad day on the water?