I'd like to know if any of you open water swimmers ever schedule a long ocean swim (over 5 miles) during a neap tide as it is known to help a swimmer during that swim. Or, do many of you do pre-scheduled open water swims that are sanctioned by other swim clubs and have to swim at their scheduled race times? And do any clubs who sponsor long ocean swims, ever schedule their races during neap tides?
Donna
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The MIF puts on a swim called The Little Red Lighthouse each year. The course has changed from a 7.8 mile race to a 5.8 mile race but I believe the intention of the race director is to keep the average finish time around 2 hours. This is accomplished by tweaking the start time reletive to the tidal changes and a staggering of the start (having up to 8 waves of swimmers).
The entire Manhattan Marathon is dependant on timing the tides right and there is a great chapter about this trial and error in The History of Open Water Marathon Swimming by Capt. Tim Johnson.
The MIF puts on a swim called The Little Red Lighthouse each year. The course has changed from a 7.8 mile race to a 5.8 mile race but I believe the intention of the race director is to keep the average finish time around 2 hours. This is accomplished by tweaking the start time reletive to the tidal changes and a staggering of the start (having up to 8 waves of swimmers).
The entire Manhattan Marathon is dependant on timing the tides right and there is a great chapter about this trial and error in The History of Open Water Marathon Swimming by Capt. Tim Johnson.
