apmoss wrote:
I think we were in different races...but the fastest swimmers at Decatur swam about 200 yards extra, not because of GPS imprecision, but because they swam out to someone's houseboat. The final buoy was kind of out there on its own. BUT 100 yards to the south was a big old boat of some kind, like at Kona or something, looking suspiciously like a course marker. I kept seeing them out there and thinking, one of us is going to be pissed about the swim -- me for cutting the course and getting a DQ or them for doing an extra quarter mile.
Turned out is was me with a red face, for getting beat by a 14 year-old who swam 200 yards more and 20 seconds faster, but I digress...
Same race. I'm 99% sure I had the swim lead from the first turn buoy on. I finished just ahead of the 14 year old (see the recent "honor" thread elsewhere in this forum). If that kid swam around the house boat, he closed like a mofo because he wasn't ahead of me at the last turn buoy. FWIW, I was pretty far outside the buoy line all the way down, and had to come back right pretty hard towards the finish. Maybe it looked like I was aiming for the houseboat, but really it was just poor form.
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