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Um, not that fast, riiiiiiiiight. My comment was intended a VERY tough-in-cheek. That was a fantastic swim. Maintaining that pace for over SIX HOURS pretty much meets my definition of incredible. Really, thank you Paul. I know what you were saying. You are too kind. :bighug: I hadn't actually calculated what that kind of pace was at all. I had to laugh to myself once I saw those numbers, b/c somehow, I thought they'd be a bit faster! :D Something to work on for next time? Hey, I'm still a sprinter! What are you guys talking about!? I just happen to enter distance events too. Criminy, I had better start swimming more 50s! Leslie, I have it on good authority from one of the 25K swimmers that you were a breaststroker as a kid!? Supposedly you won some kind of 200 breaststroke event at a rather large meet?! This is from someone who swam with you as a youth. You've been outed! But yes, I agree. Leonard was so generous with his time and explanations to me about how to pull this all off. Anna Lea, these are unofficial, but I was told the air temp got up to 89 degrees and the water was around 82 to 84. There was some cloud coverage and cold pockets in the lake and that saved a lot of us swimmers. Thank goodness I'm from the south and used to that kind of crazy heat. I heard that this heat wave started only a few days before the race. FlyQueen, thank you and did you choose a recovery drink yet? The only issue w/ my hammer products were that I still felt woozy and slightly overheated after the swim for a couple of hours. BUT, they seemed to work really well during the swim - I had energy and no cramping and in pretty tough conditions! Thank you David and Syd. David, I did not have lat burn. I've been told I'm to work more on swimming with my lats (it's very stupid not to use them). But other parts of my arms DID hurt! We must not swim with our biceps as those were fine and dandy. Legs were cool b/c I did NOT kick. Core fine. Arms including tris - bad! ARG! Tracy, thank you very much. Will I see you at the Pentathlon in September? Ande, thank you. Only a couple of people wore the B70. The number #2 finisher had one on but he had some rough chafing going on. I opted for a FSII - comfort over buoyancy. I think I made the right choice as my core was fine for the entire swim. One tiny chafe mark. I was pretty cool temp-wise in a silver one. I heard that once your core goes, you are toast! Hence, the great thing about the B70. But, our coach makes us do hundreds of crunches, so no worries. BTW, I don't think my coaches Landon and Scot read this, but I have to give them major THANK YOUs. They are really tough and they know what they are doing. I think they are the first coaches I've had in which I do everything they tell me to do! We've established I'm a pain. And they are both younger than me to boot! :lmao:

Um, not that fast, riiiiiiiiight. My comment was intended a VERY tough-in-cheek. That was a fantastic swim. Maintaining that pace for over SIX HOURS pretty much meets my definition of incredible. Really, thank you Paul. I know what you were saying. You are too kind. :bighug: I hadn't actually calculated what that kind of pace was at all. I had to laugh to myself once I saw those numbers, b/c somehow, I thought they'd be a bit faster! :D Something to work on for next time? Hey, I'm still a sprinter! What are you guys talking about!? I just happen to enter distance events too. Criminy, I had better start swimming more 50s! Leslie, I have it on good authority from one of the 25K swimmers that you were a breaststroker as a kid!? Supposedly you won some kind of 200 breaststroke event at a rather large meet?! This is from someone who swam with you as a youth. You've been outed! But yes, I agree. Leonard was so generous with his time and explanations to me about how to pull this all off. Anna Lea, these are unofficial, but I was told the air temp got up to 89 degrees and the water was around 82 to 84. There was some cloud coverage and cold pockets in the lake and that saved a lot of us swimmers. Thank goodness I'm from the south and used to that kind of crazy heat. I heard that this heat wave started only a few days before the race. FlyQueen, thank you and did you choose a recovery drink yet? The only issue w/ my hammer products were that I still felt woozy and slightly overheated after the swim for a couple of hours. BUT, they seemed to work really well during the swim - I had energy and no cramping and in pretty tough conditions! Thank you David and Syd. David, I did not have lat burn. I've been told I'm to work more on swimming with my lats (it's very stupid not to use them). But other parts of my arms DID hurt! We must not swim with our biceps as those were fine and dandy. Legs were cool b/c I did NOT kick. Core fine. Arms including tris - bad! ARG! Tracy, thank you very much. Will I see you at the Pentathlon in September? Ande, thank you. Only a couple of people wore the B70. The number #2 finisher had one on but he had some rough chafing going on. I opted for a FSII - comfort over buoyancy. I think I made the right choice as my core was fine for the entire swim. One tiny chafe mark. I was pretty cool temp-wise in a silver one. I heard that once your core goes, you are toast! Hence, the great thing about the B70. But, our coach makes us do hundreds of crunches, so no worries. BTW, I don't think my coaches Landon and Scot read this, but I have to give them major THANK YOUs. They are really tough and they know what they are doing. I think they are the first coaches I've had in which I do everything they tell me to do! We've established I'm a pain. And they are both younger than me to boot! :lmao: