The Fifteenth Annual 24 Mile Tampa Bay Marathon Swim will be held on Saturday, April 21, 2012. Entry forms for are available at www.DistanceMatters.com This 24 mile ultra-distance marathon swim race starts at the Sunshine Skyway Bridge and ends on the Courtney Campbell Causeway in Tampa in a race that covers the length of Tampa Bay.
For more information, contact:
The Tampa Bay Marathon Swim
Distance Matters, Inc.
Ron Collins, Race Director
PO Box 18004
Clearwater, FL 33762-9998
727.531.7999 | www.DistanceMatters.com
Email: Collins@tampabay.rr.com
i know a few posters on this board have completed this swim... what is the tidal contribution to this swim? is this swim tougher than the manhattan island swim?
As one of the 47% who didn't make it through Tampa, I'll say that if a nice strong northerly wind settles into the Tampa Area whipping up the bay; you're going to have a long day on your hands.
After a few miles heading east, you turn basically straight north for the majority of it and one the day I was there, it was just brutal and there wasn't going to be any relief for the entire rest of the swim. I got out at the St Pete pier, with a lot of other folks.
I had done a training day in February and the water was flat, that was no sweat. Well other than the distance the training day was no sweat.
i know a few posters on this board have completed this swim... what is the tidal contribution to this swim? is this swim tougher than the manhattan island swim?
As one of the 47% who didn't make it through Tampa, I'll say that if a nice strong northerly wind settles into the Tampa Area whipping up the bay; you're going to have a long day on your hands.
After a few miles heading east, you turn basically straight north for the majority of it and one the day I was there, it was just brutal and there wasn't going to be any relief for the entire rest of the swim. I got out at the St Pete pier, with a lot of other folks.
I had done a training day in February and the water was flat, that was no sweat. Well other than the distance the training day was no sweat.
