FINA seems ready to set a maximum water temperature for open water swims at 31 degrees centigrade(87.8 Farenheit.) www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../35137.asp Further proof that swimmers welfare is not FINAs # 1 priority.
I lived in Houston for 21 years. One can accommodate to activity in high temperature and humidity states.I am not sure that same accommodation is possible in hot water, where sweat evaporation as a cooling adaptation is impossible.Ask anyone who swam at Nats in The Woodlands in 2007 who had an afternoon event if hot weather affected their performance.
How about the heat in Mesa, during 2011 Spring Nationals? The heat affected me so much, I unable to compete at all on the final day. And, it took me a couple of weeks to recover. :badday:
I lived in Houston for 21 years. One can accommodate to activity in high temperature and humidity states.I am not sure that same accommodation is possible in hot water, where sweat evaporation as a cooling adaptation is impossible.Ask anyone who swam at Nats in The Woodlands in 2007 who had an afternoon event if hot weather affected their performance.
How about the heat in Mesa, during 2011 Spring Nationals? The heat affected me so much, I unable to compete at all on the final day. And, it took me a couple of weeks to recover. :badday:
