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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thanks for the advice. the chesapeake is a little colder than i thought - i had just been looking at generic data for annapolis.
do you know how tight the barracuda hot head caps should fit? i bought one, and went large - i'm not sure if a latex cap would stay on it. the smaller size gave me a cone head profile. do they stretch with use?
thanks for the advice. the chesapeake is a little colder than i thought - i had just been looking at generic data for annapolis.
do you know how tight the barracuda hot head caps should fit? i bought one, and went large - i'm not sure if a latex cap would stay on it. the smaller size gave me a cone head profile. do they stretch with use?
