After about 8 years of not doing any open water swims, I found out that I'm going to be on Oahu (housesitting, no less) at the time of the Waikiki swim (2.4 miles) , so I'd like to take part.
I did a 1 1/2 mile swim over the weekend and found myself drifting first to one side then the other. In other words, I probably swam an extra 1/2 mile that I didn't need to.
I swim with a Master's swim team, competed at Nationals in Tempe so I'm in relatively good shape -- for pool swimming. But I've forgotten everything I ever learned about open water swimming.
Any suggestions about training, technique or the Waikiki swim would be helpful....thanks in advance.
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I can't help you at this late date, but I do hope you were one of the lucky ones to finish? For it is quite unbeliveable that out of nearly 1000 racers, only about a third finished. I belive this is the first time a swimming race made the front pages of the newspapers:
starbulletin.com/.../index1.htmlthe.honoluluadvertiser.com/.../ln04a.htmlthe.honoluluadvertiser.com/.../ln13a.html
Perhaps like runners, bicyclists, and paddlers; we should include a little bit of hill climbing to our training routine?
I can't help you at this late date, but I do hope you were one of the lucky ones to finish? For it is quite unbeliveable that out of nearly 1000 racers, only about a third finished. I belive this is the first time a swimming race made the front pages of the newspapers:
starbulletin.com/.../index1.htmlthe.honoluluadvertiser.com/.../ln04a.htmlthe.honoluluadvertiser.com/.../ln13a.html
Perhaps like runners, bicyclists, and paddlers; we should include a little bit of hill climbing to our training routine?
