Wild Fish One Mile swim - Swim1 mile Cable

This is the closest I have EVER come to dropping out of a race before it even started!!! The water was SO COLD, I cannot express how detrimental not having a wetsuit was to my morale, which was already low do to the fact that I knew that I'd be finishing in the bottom five of the 1-milers. (That's ok. I just swim much, much slower than I bike and run.) I tried to get my head in the water for a warm up, but it was so cold, I couldn't breathe... couldn't calm down. I told myself that my new goal was to START the race. And I did.

Then I got about 200 yards out, and I was laughing at myself. I could handle it, I wasn't swimming alone, I was sighting well (only on the first leg) and I had a great rhythm down.

My face, hands, and legs went numb. I realized at about half way that I had stopped kicking, who knows how long before that. I had trouble getting my fingers to make cups. So I focused on my rotation and sighting.

This race was a great course-- needs a wetsuit!!! (Although others braved the water without them.)-- and I had a lot of fun once I overcame my initial panic and feelings of unpreparedness.

I was #32

WEAR A WETSUIT and get clear goggles to make sighting easier. I honestly feel like I swam at least 2000 yards because I couldn't maintain the correct attitude in the water.

This was probably not my race pace; I definitely swam reserved. As always, I would push harder if I could do it differently.

None. Gatorade, water, and granola bars.


Nervousness, maybe the cold.


Small race (150 swimmers? This includes the 2-milers) but good attitude! They had a variety of sponsors giving out all sorts of things --massages, pizza, drinks, cookies-- and the shirts are good. ;)