Anyone planning on doing the 12.5 mile Swim Around Key West?
Or has anyone done the swim before?
The Race Director Bill Welzien is attempting to swim around Key West once a month for a year. He's posted his race experiences through December 2006 but he's not posted an update since December 2006. I hope he's doing okay.
Still working on getting an escort. . .
Anyway, should be a fun event. I hope to be there even w/ a surgery scheduled for April 30. Doc cleared me and said I could do it - course, we'll see how it goes after the surgery. Now, just need to continue to get in that yardage. Doubles were hard the first couple of weeks, but now they're pretty fun!
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First off - sorry to hear you are having eye surgery. I had a retinal detachment a couple years ago. The surgery wasn't painful, but hanging around the house for several days not doing anything was horrible. The small hole that they fixed in the other retina was done with a laser in the office, and there was no recovery time required for that. Prepare accordingly.
As for the drinks issue, I don't have any experience with open water swims over 3 miles, but I have done lots of long, long runs so take this advice accordingly. In general I like the hammer products and I use Perpetuem for runs over 2 hours. The flavored product didn't agree with me because of the stevia sweetener, so I use the unflavored and mix in some gel or some Cytomax powder. One thing that you might consider is having 2 flavors of stuff available. Sometimes in long events you get tired of the same thing and want to stop drinking, so having something else to turn to is a good idea. Another thing to think about is when and if to have caffeinated products. Some folks use them the whole way, and others only use them near the end (maybe the last hour or so).
First off - sorry to hear you are having eye surgery. I had a retinal detachment a couple years ago. The surgery wasn't painful, but hanging around the house for several days not doing anything was horrible. The small hole that they fixed in the other retina was done with a laser in the office, and there was no recovery time required for that. Prepare accordingly.
As for the drinks issue, I don't have any experience with open water swims over 3 miles, but I have done lots of long, long runs so take this advice accordingly. In general I like the hammer products and I use Perpetuem for runs over 2 hours. The flavored product didn't agree with me because of the stevia sweetener, so I use the unflavored and mix in some gel or some Cytomax powder. One thing that you might consider is having 2 flavors of stuff available. Sometimes in long events you get tired of the same thing and want to stop drinking, so having something else to turn to is a good idea. Another thing to think about is when and if to have caffeinated products. Some folks use them the whole way, and others only use them near the end (maybe the last hour or so).
