Subject: RE: IMCDA swim start I forget how many groupings. I know there was "less than an hour" and "hour to 1:15" and "1:15 to 1:30" - the last was mine so I quit paying attention after that. It was my first, so I never experienced the mass start - but I seeded myself about the middle of the 1:15 - 1:30 group and I had virtually no contact with anyone except for a few brushes and having to avoid a few people that got off course and swam diagonally. It seemed like about 10 to 15 of us entered the water at the same time... I think my only complaint was that we were so spread out, it was hard to find anyone to draft off of. My brother-in-law was in a kayak and he said everyone was in the water well before 7am. Like it or not, the first trial of this at Cd'A went very smoothly and got some great reviews. |