To 10K or not to 10K? Will I get to race?
More tapering today. Good thing, cause that water is HOT. Double HOT. I learned yesterday that my 10K will likely be shortened to a 5K or cancelled because of the water temperature (USMS has a rule that you cannot do more than 5K if the temp exceeds 85 and you can’t swim at all if it exceeds 87). Effing. Global. Warming.
So I’m praying for torrential rains in the mountains of North Carolina. Some cloud cover would be awesome as well. And sampling the lake down a foot or so. What will be, will be – gotta love open water swimming. Glad I don’t remember how much I paid for this race that I might be out all of the money for. Plus hotel. Also glad we planned to go white water rafting –at least it won’t be a wasted trip.
I took a quick look and struck out finding another 10K to do. There’s one in PA on August 30th, but it doesn’t excite me. At this point, I may just sign up for the Swim Around Charleston. 12 miles isn’t THAT much further than 6. Right?
