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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"My opinion is that soon, a boatload of people will raise the money that "guarantees" you a spot, and suddenly lots of rich OW distance-swimming snobs will be the only participants with no room for a lottery. The casual swimmer has already been weeded out by the cost... if this buying your spot continues the way I expect, the event will become a sorry excuse of its former self in no time and I'll be joining you in your original post's tone 100%."
In the past 3 years, 125 people have raised the minumum to get an Early Bird Entry. In a field of 700 that isn't hurting the lottery odds too much. If you consider this buying a spot, I'm not here to convince you otherwise.
BTW I'm far from a 'rich OW distance swimming snob'. I'm a cheap SOB pool rat that finds pools I can swim for free whenever I can.
Tree
"My opinion is that soon, a boatload of people will raise the money that "guarantees" you a spot, and suddenly lots of rich OW distance-swimming snobs will be the only participants with no room for a lottery. The casual swimmer has already been weeded out by the cost... if this buying your spot continues the way I expect, the event will become a sorry excuse of its former self in no time and I'll be joining you in your original post's tone 100%."
In the past 3 years, 125 people have raised the minumum to get an Early Bird Entry. In a field of 700 that isn't hurting the lottery odds too much. If you consider this buying a spot, I'm not here to convince you otherwise.
BTW I'm far from a 'rich OW distance swimming snob'. I'm a cheap SOB pool rat that finds pools I can swim for free whenever I can.
Tree
