I'm doing the Chesapeake Bay swim on Sunday. I have no idea what to expect. I'm planning to not use a wetsuit but I noticed most swimmers had wetsuits last year...not sure why. If anyone has done this swim I'd appreaciate any tips/advice. This will be my longest OW swim to date.
I puked, almost on muppet. He swims super fast when confronted with that spectacle.
Were you puking because you saw Jim in his tie-dyed suit? :bolt:
I am still not sure what to say about that suit.
It's not often that Aquageek is speechless...
Here's a little tidbit on this year's 4.4-mile winner:
"The winner was Frederick Hviid with a time of 1.35.57. (He also swam in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics for Spain."
I would be really interested in jim matysek's overall impression of yesterday's swim. I went to dinner with two guys who have done it 9 times each and they were 15 minutes slower than last year and said this was probably the third hardest they'd done. I have nothing to compare it to but I'm glad I didn't wear my wetsuit (I did wear my beloved B70, which is now toast).
www.eyeonannapolis.net/.../
Apparently someone had a heartattack. I hope he's okay. Does anyone know how many swimmers got pulled from the end of the race?
I got stuck in a current in the shipping channel and lost a lot of time fighting my way out of it. I was one of the last they allowed to finish.
We 1-mile swimmers all pulled out our caps and spent a few minutes trying to figure this out. See the attached photos.
Finally someone did. Her guess was that when the volunteers wrote the numbers on the caps, someone told them to "write the number on both sides." The caps must have been folded in half, so they did flip them over to write on the back side. Only they were still writing on the same side of the cap...
This is posted on the Lin-Mark web site:
Why The Event Was Interrupted
The Great Chesapeake Bay Swim is known to be one of the safest open water swims in the Nation. The decision of the U.S. Coast Guard to halt the event, based on the threat of the impending storm was made to insure maximum safety for all participants.
Swimmer Accountability
620 Individually Scanned and Confirmed 4.4 swimmers entered the water at Sandy Point State Park.
78 Total Swimmers DNF (Did not Finish)
Of the 78 swimmers who did not finish,
16 DNF were pulled prior to event interruption
62 DNF were pulled as a result of the event interruption.
While the early end of the event was a disappointment to everyone, the Race Director and all of the advisory agencies of the Great Chesapeake Bay Swim count swimmer safety as their number one priority.
