Drafting

George's posts always make me a bit sad. There are many open water races that are lost to history or reside only in the memory of the people who were in them and yet they often have colorful stories attached. In racewalking, my first love, there are huge gaps in the history. Not just the origin, which is long lost, but even some of the US national championships of years past and some of the crazy things that happened during the races. George, not to make work for you, but you really should consider writing up your race career - even the races covered in Wind, Waves and Sunburn. It wouldn't have to be a book or formally written, per se - even just an introduction and a page on each race that you could remember and then send xerox copies to universities that have Sport History programs. Some day there will be a doctoral student writing his/her dissertation on the history of open water swimming who will thank you. -LBJ

George's posts always make me a bit sad. There are many open water races that are lost to history or reside only in the memory of the people who were in them and yet they often have colorful stories attached. In racewalking, my first love, there are huge gaps in the history. Not just the origin, which is long lost, but even some of the US national championships of years past and some of the crazy things that happened during the races. George, not to make work for you, but you really should consider writing up your race career - even the races covered in Wind, Waves and Sunburn. It wouldn't have to be a book or formally written, per se - even just an introduction and a page on each race that you could remember and then send xerox copies to universities that have Sport History programs. Some day there will be a doctoral student writing his/her dissertation on the history of open water swimming who will thank you. -LBJ