~By Scott Bay, Dynoswimmer
So it was unseasonably cold in Florida - air temp in the mid 50s and water temp in the high 60s / low seventies, in other words wetsuit weather for my first Tri of the season. I chose to keep it real and only wear my jammers that I race masters and open water in.
Race morning I realize that I am one of six people not wearing a wetsuit. 20 minutes to race start and no one is in the water to warm up. I chose to push my ‘Real-o-Meter’ into the red and run into the water and swim 50 yds of fly before settling into a nice freestyle rhythm to warm up.
The gun goes off and 250+ male swimmers hit the water churning it into a cauldron of fury. It was right then and there that I decided to Keep it Realer than I ever have before.
I sprinted to the front both over and around people to catch up to the lead group. I ended up 5th (By about 7 seconds from the leader) and the first non wetsuit person out of the water that day. I ended up 20th out of almost 400 at the end of the tri as I had to pay for the hard swim effort.
It stinks to get passed on the bike and run due to a strong swim effort but hey. I had my 15 seconds of glory after the swim.
As you know I would have chose the wetsuit.
Congrats on the great swim. You have been ddoing very well at practice.
You have! You've been kicking butt at practice. I, at one time, could keep up but now, forget it. You blow me away!
You too, Amy. I've just been a slacker.
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