Clearwater Beach Patrol Ocean Mile Swim Srs #1 - Swim


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Clearwater, Florida
United States
Sunny
Total Time = 36m 55s
Overall Rank = 70/99
Age Group = 35-39
Age Group Rank = 7/8
Pre-race routine:

nothin', arrived, registered. "oh, that's the boys line and this is the girls' line. Me and another dude quickly and discreetly switched places. oop!
Swim
  • 00m
  • 1509 meters
  • / 100 meters
Comments:

welllll..... some whole swim team full of kids was there. LOTS of bikinis today, maybe I should get one too. NO tummy issues today. The yellow beach flags were out today. I thought they looked orange. anyhoo... I swallowed way more water than ST A's. It was ugly. I found a green cap and used it as a sighting thing. But then I eventually passed the green cap. When I hit the turnaround buoy, I was all alone, so did the windmill turn thingie and it was pretty cool. The ride back in was great, I was more relaxed this time, probably because I can't see the waves coming at my face. I did better this lap, the only bad thing was I couldn't see the dang buoy and didn't know if I was on course or not, since I could see a kayak I thought I was okay, but can't hear if he's yelling at me, so... I hate it when it gets this way, you can't see, can't hear, what a bitch. But that's my life. Deal with it. anyhoo, made the buoy, sprinted for it, swam in till my fingers touched the bottom, stood up and got knocked over by a wave. So graceful. Did some goofy skips out of the water, and got handed a card that said 70, which I thought was funny because I was marked 70.
What would you do differently?:

relax. Sight better. Not breathe every stroke and learn to bilateral breathe.
Post race
Warm down:

walk around looking for kids.

What limited your ability to perform faster:

I'm slow. waves. Drinking saltwater.

Event comments:

pretty good race, small. Benefits the city's junior lifeguard program. It's on Clearwater beach which is a great nice beach to spend the day afterwards, but we had other stuff to do.
**update:*** this time sucked. The age groups were realy skewered- the largest was 15-19 with the swim teams and times were 20 min to 29 min for that AG. Some fast young'uns there. I was good enough to place second if I was aged up and fourth if I was a couple years younger. I need to get used to the OW swimmin' thing.




Last updated: 2006-05-04 12:00 AM
Swimming
00:00:00 | 1509 meters | / 100meters
Age Group: 0/8
Overall: 0/99
Performance: Average
Suit:
Course: out and back parallel to shore.
Start type: Wade Plus: Shot
Water temp: 0F / 0C Current: Medium
200M Perf. Remainder:
Breathing: Drafting:
Waves: Navigation:
Rounding: Good
Post race
Weight change: %
Overall:
Mental exertion [1-5]
Physical exertion [1-5]
Good race?
Evaluation
Course challenge Just right
Organized? Yes
Events on-time? Yes
Lots of volunteers? Yes
Plenty of drinks?
Post race activities:
Race evaluation [1-5] 4