This race was strictly a training race to get better OWS practice. The results are a little skewed because the chip timing system was faulty so they asked people to send their times in. You gotta expect some people to lie so take the results with a grain of sand. Nevertheless, I learned a lot during the swim today.

My line to the first bouy was perfect. I had fairly clean water until the bouy when things crowded together, but they thinned out pretty soon afterwards. For the entire swim my line was nearly perfect. I sighted every five or six strokes and managed to swim straight unlike some of my other races. My only trouble was on the turnaround a little halfway through when I got disoriented and swam a little off line.

My breathing was relaxed and under control for the first 25 minutes or so but then the water's temperature started to take a toll on me. The water was really cold and my legs started to tighten up. My kick really failed me the last 600 meters or so and I slowed down, but that is expected since my longest continous swim before this race was only 1640 yards.

I think I had a solid race and learned a lot from this workout. Hopefully I can duplicate this type of swim in my Olypimic swim, but just go much faster. I had no sense of urgency in this race.

Wear a wetsuit.

I came out of the water a little disoriented and it took me about five minutes of walking to feel better. I wanted to get back home so I cooled off with a hose and headed back for the car. Probably should have done a cool down swim, but some of the 2.4er's were still swimming and I didn't think I was allowed in the water.


Lack of endurance training, didn't "race" this.