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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That area is getting lots of rain and its been cool. Most body heat leaves thru your head
Try a double cap with a bubble cap or Hot head type under the race cap they will give you. Test out and practise what ever you will use first to get used to. Bubble caps are cheap about 10 dollars with shipping lots of places have them on line ebay ect. Hot head caps about 35 with shipping.
See Swim caps for open water swims
www.geocities.com/.../coldwatercaps.html
That area is getting lots of rain and its been cool. Most body heat leaves thru your head
Try a double cap with a bubble cap or Hot head type under the race cap they will give you. Test out and practise what ever you will use first to get used to. Bubble caps are cheap about 10 dollars with shipping lots of places have them on line ebay ect. Hot head caps about 35 with shipping.
See Swim caps for open water swims
www.geocities.com/.../coldwatercaps.html
