Open water swim training first attempt

[david1701]

Ok I a officially no longer gonna try training in boardies, wetsuit coming out tomorrow

 

[slowmotion]

Smart move.

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[david1701]

? Why the boat race thing? My issue was temperature lol I'm perfectly safe where I swim.

 

[slowmotion]

Sorry. It was just the most recent image that sprang to mind of somebody looking happy in a wet suit.

 

[007fair]

Ok I a officially no longer gonna try training in boardies, wetsuit coming out tomorrow

Mine has been sitting in the wardrobe since xmas waiting for the weather to warm up a bit
Within the next few weeks it will have to come out as I am booked on my first OW Tri in June.

nervous? yes..

 

[david1701]

Sorry. It was just the most recent image that sprang to mind of somebody looking happy in a wet suit.

its all good, I'm just being a bit dim atm

 

[david1701]

Mine has been sitting in the wardrobe since xmas waiting for the weather to warm up a bit
Within the next few weeks it will have to come out as I am booked on my first OW Tri in June.

nervous? yes..

lil bit, its my first tri full stop :S

 

[007fair]

lil bit, its my first tri full stop :S

My first is Sunday - May 13th! Although thats a pool swim so not so bad. Just the transitions to cope with. I am a bit nervous about the OW one

Post here with your experiences .. unless of course they are all terrible in which case I don't want to know
If you don't post here .. then we will think you have not survived!

 

[david1701]

I got caught working so haven't gotten out and now the tide has covered the swimming pool I want to go to :s maybe tomorrow I'll get a chance

 

[VamP]

Hah, my wetsuit arrived yesterday! Quite a science getting in into it, isn't it?

Heron Lake here I come

 

[xxmimixx]

im too going open water (lake) swimming on Sunday for the first time. it's expected to be around 12c freezing I dont loo k forward to it but it's got to be done!

 

[Arsen Gere]

The Prince Bishops triathlon last weekend in Durham was postponed, the water was 8c !

Grendon this coming weekend may turn in to a duathlon, the water was about 12c. My first OW event this year, I'm not exactly looking forward to it.

 

[david1701]

yeah the temp is fine with a wetsuit I was in all sprint-summer when I was growing up, its just that it hit pretty hard without the wetsuit
.....

 

[Eoin Rua]

Swim last weekend was shortened to 400m because of the water temperature - I think I was the only one thinking 'this is quite pleasant' when I got into the water...my Dec/Jan acclimatisation swims certainly paid off Although a shorter swim left me with too much energy coming out of the water and went off waaaay too fast on the bike! Ah well, live and learn...

 

[david1701]

Fuuuuuu am I unfit stopped 3 times on a length