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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Oh, and as for sharks... we were told before the race that any sharks we saw were probably nurse sharks, which likely weren't going to do anything. (Not that this comforted us much at the time.) I didn't see any during the race (although I have seen some while snorkeling in the lower Keys), but we did see some dolphins while we were on the boat, and one of the swimmers saw a large sting ray. And lots of fish, of course. The most common type of jellyfish I've seen in the Keys (not during the race, but during numerous snorkeling trips) are those pink ones that don't seem to pack much of a sting. I'd be more worried about encountering a man o' war -- a run-in with one of those can be really painful.
Oh, and as for sharks... we were told before the race that any sharks we saw were probably nurse sharks, which likely weren't going to do anything. (Not that this comforted us much at the time.) I didn't see any during the race (although I have seen some while snorkeling in the lower Keys), but we did see some dolphins while we were on the boat, and one of the swimmers saw a large sting ray. And lots of fish, of course. The most common type of jellyfish I've seen in the Keys (not during the race, but during numerous snorkeling trips) are those pink ones that don't seem to pack much of a sting. I'd be more worried about encountering a man o' war -- a run-in with one of those can be really painful.
