i'm swimming in the chesapeake bay swim in about a month, and know most people will be wearing wetsuits. i don't have a wetsuit, and i don't want a wetsuit, but i don't want to be pulled out of the race 3 miles in, shivering, miserable, and maybe hypothermic. i'm planning to do some training swims in the 3 weekends i have left - and in new york, where it's a good bit colder. the coldest swim i've done (last fall) was 53 for 19 minutes without any pre-training. any advice would be appreciated...
i expect to do the swim in about 2.5 hours.
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I swam GCBS in 2004. I was one of the few without a wetsuit. It was plenty warm that year (~70 degrees) & I finished in just over 2 hrs. I would have been way too hot with one & hate swimming in a wetsuit. Besides, here in Oregon if our lakes get to 70 degrees we are lovin' it!
I swam GCBS in 2004. I was one of the few without a wetsuit. It was plenty warm that year (~70 degrees) & I finished in just over 2 hrs. I would have been way too hot with one & hate swimming in a wetsuit. Besides, here in Oregon if our lakes get to 70 degrees we are lovin' it!
