One of the events that we are working on here in AZ is a USMS-sanctioned wave at the Tribal Open Water Swim at Tempe Town Lake. There will be two distances for this event this time around (2000M and 4000M) so you can pick your poison (distance) now. This event will be on November 9th and should draw a good amount of swimmers. Here is the info for the USA-Triathlon wave:
www.dcbadventures.com/.../...ails.php
Once we have the sanction, there will be a sign-up section for USMS swimmers. This event drew just under 400 triathletes in April in preparation for Ironman AZ. It should be a good time.
There will be more information on this swim shortly but you open water folks may want to think about this event. Early November in Arizona is beautiful and the water is still relatively warm. Tempe Town Lake is in downtown Tempe and just a couple of miles from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. One week after this swim is the Ron Johnson Invitational SCM Meet at ASU, which is also in downtown Tempe. So give these events some thought for fall events.
See you in November!
This is a modified posting that I put in the Open Water section. Nothing like being redundant and saying the same thing and repeating yourself and making the same point and...
C'mon, Kurt. You're gonna let some triathlete out-sprint you at the start? I know you're a distance guy, but get a jump on them and do the kicking yourself.
I don't think I want it as bad. I'm sure 99% of triathletes are nice, put there is like 5-10 people in every race I do that absolutely have to prove they belong up front (which position they may be by the end of the race); it is rare when any of these crazed, foot pulling, elbow tossing, freaks are as good a swimmer as they think they are.
Yes, David, they do swim in the nastiness. Mark Gill actually had a series of open water swims there in I believe 05 which was nice. They started having less races in the lake as it was rumored it cost thousands of dollars to treat the lake because of pH problems (read Arizona-115 degrees, stagnant water, ?sewage, algae, and teems of microorganisms probably never previously catalogued). This made only big races with lots o' cash (IM Arizona, Soma) only able to afford the pretreatment. You are not allowed to swim there unless there is a sanctioned race. There are lots of better lakes to have races, but none with the trendy tempe commercial area nearby and immediate proximity to town (Lake Pleasant is much superior but about 20 miles outside of peoria); therefore we will continue to swim there (it's really not that bad) and call it open water--"the tempe town lake rough water swim."
C'mon, Kurt. You're gonna let some triathlete out-sprint you at the start? I know you're a distance guy, but get a jump on them and do the kicking yourself.
I don't think I want it as bad. I'm sure 99% of triathletes are nice, put there is like 5-10 people in every race I do that absolutely have to prove they belong up front (which position they may be by the end of the race); it is rare when any of these crazed, foot pulling, elbow tossing, freaks are as good a swimmer as they think they are.
Yes, David, they do swim in the nastiness. Mark Gill actually had a series of open water swims there in I believe 05 which was nice. They started having less races in the lake as it was rumored it cost thousands of dollars to treat the lake because of pH problems (read Arizona-115 degrees, stagnant water, ?sewage, algae, and teems of microorganisms probably never previously catalogued). This made only big races with lots o' cash (IM Arizona, Soma) only able to afford the pretreatment. You are not allowed to swim there unless there is a sanctioned race. There are lots of better lakes to have races, but none with the trendy tempe commercial area nearby and immediate proximity to town (Lake Pleasant is much superior but about 20 miles outside of peoria); therefore we will continue to swim there (it's really not that bad) and call it open water--"the tempe town lake rough water swim."
