Ok, so the more they email me, the more I get nervous about the water temp. Last year it was 69 which stung to get in, but it made for a nice swimming temp. By the end, though, my fingers and toes felt a little numb, but that could have been tired (??).
But this year, it could be up to 10 degrees colder?! What to do when the coolest water I can find here in Cincinnati is 80?
Chicken of the sea: calling me unsportsmanlike is hurtful and I am going to have to reconsider our facebook friendship. I only mentioned La Jolla as it was the same weekend, roughly the same distance, and usually has overall faster swimmers (Fran Crippen, Chloe Sutton and other age-groupers). Unfair comparison? yes. Absurd? I think not. If you put Jeff Erwin over in lane 1 doing a birthday swim mile with the entire team churning on him and put me in lane 8 with smooth water, he still kicks my butt.
This is not about A.S., but about holding race directors accountable. As an example (albeit more extreme), I have won two open water swims here in Phoenix this summer. Each time I was not originally declared the winner. The first time there was somebody that supposedly went 14 minutes faster than anyone. The second a 10 year old girl on my daughter's team was put in front of me in the results. Is it unsportsman-like to question the results? While I believe I won, I have no way to prove it as the waves mixed (as I assume they do in Chicago). AS and his pal Tom seem like good swimmers. If they say it was done, then we must accept the results. I will continue to question things I do not believe to be true...y'all can go back to your opium den of civility now. :)
Chicken of the sea: calling me unsportsmanlike is hurtful and I am going to have to reconsider our facebook friendship. I only mentioned La Jolla as it was the same weekend, roughly the same distance, and usually has overall faster swimmers (Fran Crippen, Chloe Sutton and other age-groupers). Unfair comparison? yes. Absurd? I think not. If you put Jeff Erwin over in lane 1 doing a birthday swim mile with the entire team churning on him and put me in lane 8 with smooth water, he still kicks my butt.
This is not about A.S., but about holding race directors accountable. As an example (albeit more extreme), I have won two open water swims here in Phoenix this summer. Each time I was not originally declared the winner. The first time there was somebody that supposedly went 14 minutes faster than anyone. The second a 10 year old girl on my daughter's team was put in front of me in the results. Is it unsportsman-like to question the results? While I believe I won, I have no way to prove it as the waves mixed (as I assume they do in Chicago). AS and his pal Tom seem like good swimmers. If they say it was done, then we must accept the results. I will continue to question things I do not believe to be true...y'all can go back to your opium den of civility now. :)
