I'm not swimming this year since the registration filled up earlier than prior years. So instead I'll be paddling in a kayak, keeping an eye on the swimmers.
Here's the water report for madison beach park (the finish)
green.kingcounty.gov/.../BeachData.aspx
The high rise juts out into the water, so I'd say it's more like at the first o in Broadmoor. You're probably right, though. I always aim straight for the highrise, and that works good until you get right there, but then you have to do a slight course correction to the right. It probably would be better to aim just slightly right, but you'd hate to go too far right and then have to cut into shore too sharply near the finish.
Somehow every year I seem to swim completely on my own. This year I had a pretty fast swimmer in a wetsuit near me close to the start and I decided to draft off him. That worked well for a few minutes, but then he abruptly stopped! After that I was completely on my own for the rest of the race.
The high rise juts out into the water, so I'd say it's more like at the first o in Broadmoor. You're probably right, though. I always aim straight for the highrise, and that works good until you get right there, but then you have to do a slight course correction to the right. It probably would be better to aim just slightly right, but you'd hate to go too far right and then have to cut into shore too sharply near the finish.
Somehow every year I seem to swim completely on my own. This year I had a pretty fast swimmer in a wetsuit near me close to the start and I decided to draft off him. That worked well for a few minutes, but then he abruptly stopped! After that I was completely on my own for the rest of the race.
