Subject: RE: IMAC Since it is a bay swim you have currents and tides as you know, however you never really know how strong they will be until you that day.
About 20 minutes before the first wave went they announced that the swim was going to be shortened to 1 mile because of the heavy currents. I had a friend in wave 1 and another in wave 2, I was in wave 10. Apparently people in the 1st couple of waves were having a hard time with current, and it was increasing as the tide was coming in. So it looks like between wave 4 and 5 they shortened the coarse again. I knew something wrong when I got of the water in 20 minutes flat, at 1 mile I should have been around 24-25 minutes
This was the same swim coarse as they had for Tri AC 5 weeks earlier (international distance ) and they had no problems. They must have had a lot of people in trouble from the first couple wave or they would not have done that. First 2 waves were men 40-44, I think the 3rd wave was men 35-39 maybe the forth as well. So 2 strong groups having trouble out there probably made it and easy decision for the RD. Although he is taking slack for the short swim coarse.
The bike was dead nuts on 56 miles, the last 15 mile was heavy head winds.
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