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.
I am in wave 2. I think I signed up a couple days after registration opened.
I did a race at Reston without a wetsuit last week and I was not cold at all. I have done the Chesapeake 1 mile 4 times. 2 with a wetsuit and 2 without my wetsuit. Once you are moving you won't care about the water temperature.
(Maybe Mr. Moderator should leave his wetsuit in Kansas?):dunno:
Good luck!
:cheerleader:
I am in wave 2. I think I signed up a couple days after registration opened.
I did a race at Reston without a wetsuit last week and I was not cold at all. I have done the Chesapeake 1 mile 4 times. 2 with a wetsuit and 2 without my wetsuit. Once you are moving you won't care about the water temperature.
(Maybe Mr. Moderator should leave his wetsuit in Kansas?):dunno:
Good luck!
:cheerleader:
