Great Chesapeake Bay Swim 2008

OK I got in. The most I have swam is 2 miles open water. I swim about 10K yards a week with 2 masters workouts a week. Now what. This race is 4.4 miles. The race date is June 8. I think I can answer my own question... double (or triple!) my weekly yardage, hold yourself back on the start, finally, grit your teeth and "enjoy" gutting it out. Ideas for training?:confused:
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  • Former Member
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    i've done the bay swim twice, 2005, 2007. 90% of the field will be rubberized though both years i've swum it, the h2o temp was in the mid 70's. I WILL NOT WEAR A WETSUIT period. i believe the naked field would be much larger if the race directors had seperate catagories for non-wetsuited swimmers. i think they had a couple of bad years when a large portion of the field had to be pulled, so now they are afraid of promoting anything that might decrease a swimmers speed, buoyancy, comfort etc. go naked!! :blush: There's a naked category??? Well, that takes care of the dreaded "strap hickey" problem. :lmao:
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  • Former Member
    Former Member
    i've done the bay swim twice, 2005, 2007. 90% of the field will be rubberized though both years i've swum it, the h2o temp was in the mid 70's. I WILL NOT WEAR A WETSUIT period. i believe the naked field would be much larger if the race directors had seperate catagories for non-wetsuited swimmers. i think they had a couple of bad years when a large portion of the field had to be pulled, so now they are afraid of promoting anything that might decrease a swimmers speed, buoyancy, comfort etc. go naked!! :blush: There's a naked category??? Well, that takes care of the dreaded "strap hickey" problem. :lmao:
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