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| **Larry Goolsby** \\ | **Larry Goolsby** \\ | ||
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| - | I found this race/swim quite interesting. The reason I'm posting this is because swimmers are paddlers of a sort - they are just missing their boats and paddles (we've all been there).\\ | + | I found this race/swim quite interesting. The reason I'm posting this is because swimmers are paddlers of a sort - they are just missing their boats and paddles (we've all been there). |
| There were 900 swimmers that showed up on Sunday morning. Registration opened at 5 am and a line had already formed. The reason for the early start was to catch the slack tide when there was little chance for any wind. During the three days that I was there, the wind kicked up waves by noon each day. Racers are divided into two categories: wetsuit and no wetsuit. About 1 out of every 8 swimmers went sans wetsuit. I heard conflicting reports about water temperature and I'm sure this had to do with where the temperature was taken. The range was 54 f to 58 f. | There were 900 swimmers that showed up on Sunday morning. Registration opened at 5 am and a line had already formed. The reason for the early start was to catch the slack tide when there was little chance for any wind. During the three days that I was there, the wind kicked up waves by noon each day. Racers are divided into two categories: wetsuit and no wetsuit. About 1 out of every 8 swimmers went sans wetsuit. I heard conflicting reports about water temperature and I'm sure this had to do with where the temperature was taken. The range was 54 f to 58 f. | ||
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