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.
you may want to check this out... Thomas Point Bouy ... maybe hourly ;-)
some weather notes: yesterday, it got up to nearly 90 throughout the area, and then we had up to 4 rounds (depending on where you live) of nasty thunderstorms come through beginning about 3pm. the bay rose about 5 degrees through the day, then cooled off ~4 degrees with the rains, but rose again a bit through the night with the humidity.
it is supposed to be near 90 for the next several days, with the chance of thunderstorms. I doubt any rains will have the same intensity and effect as yesterday's rains, so i would anticipate that we should see a pretty dramatic end-of-week temperature rise.
Last year it was 75; I'd expect more of the same this year.
you may want to check this out... Thomas Point Bouy ... maybe hourly ;-)
some weather notes: yesterday, it got up to nearly 90 throughout the area, and then we had up to 4 rounds (depending on where you live) of nasty thunderstorms come through beginning about 3pm. the bay rose about 5 degrees through the day, then cooled off ~4 degrees with the rains, but rose again a bit through the night with the humidity.
it is supposed to be near 90 for the next several days, with the chance of thunderstorms. I doubt any rains will have the same intensity and effect as yesterday's rains, so i would anticipate that we should see a pretty dramatic end-of-week temperature rise.
Last year it was 75; I'd expect more of the same this year.
