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?
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And yet...
1) We have a number of people and the timing chip that agree he was in the correct wave start.
2) We have the timing chip and others who saw him finish.
Therefore, any indiscretion must have occurred in the middle of the race. This would imply that he might have:
1) Cut the course.
2) Hitched a ride in a boat.
3) Taken the Chicago Transit Authority's well-known submarine subway, a la Rosie Ruiz.
I don't know the course, but it seems that if you were going to cut a course by that much (a number of minutes), it would be pretty evident to the safety people and race officials. If nothing else, I would expect a safety boat to rush over and try to keep me from swimming to Canada by accident. Not to mention that many eyes are on the front pack of a race anyway, so someone just casually swimming over into the lead would certainly be noticed.
Ditto being noticed for hitching a ride in a boat.
So does that leave only the submarine subway?
I also suppose that it's POSSIBLE that space aliens came down, abducted everyone (including the officials and any observers) but the winner for several minutes while he swam on blissfully unaware that it was just he and the birds out there. But we won't know this for several years until numerous participants start having strange dreams about small, gray-clad people administering rectal probes and the like.
Seriously, how do you pull off a several minute cheat in an OW race like this and given all the investigation into the matter?
I'd REALLY like to win the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim...
-LBJ
And yet...
1) We have a number of people and the timing chip that agree he was in the correct wave start.
2) We have the timing chip and others who saw him finish.
Therefore, any indiscretion must have occurred in the middle of the race. This would imply that he might have:
1) Cut the course.
2) Hitched a ride in a boat.
3) Taken the Chicago Transit Authority's well-known submarine subway, a la Rosie Ruiz.
I don't know the course, but it seems that if you were going to cut a course by that much (a number of minutes), it would be pretty evident to the safety people and race officials. If nothing else, I would expect a safety boat to rush over and try to keep me from swimming to Canada by accident. Not to mention that many eyes are on the front pack of a race anyway, so someone just casually swimming over into the lead would certainly be noticed.
Ditto being noticed for hitching a ride in a boat.
So does that leave only the submarine subway?
I also suppose that it's POSSIBLE that space aliens came down, abducted everyone (including the officials and any observers) but the winner for several minutes while he swam on blissfully unaware that it was just he and the birds out there. But we won't know this for several years until numerous participants start having strange dreams about small, gray-clad people administering rectal probes and the like.
Seriously, how do you pull off a several minute cheat in an OW race like this and given all the investigation into the matter?
I'd REALLY like to win the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim...
-LBJ
