Indeed - meant to reply to Dan.
And I agree: with the likelihood of a cancellation more common than not, why not just change the date of the race? Or delete it from the calendar. Or warn the hell out of everyone who enters - the disclaimers and waivers are endless as it is - what's one more of each?

wetsuits now are 5mm chest and 3mm back, I surf in 356 degree water for hours in the winter in a 4mm suit.

Slowman is correct, Its a different clientele

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Apparently they measured all over the place on the actual swim course at 5am. Most readings were in the high 40's, the 51* was the warmest they found. No choice but to cancel

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The Door County triathlon is held about 200 miles north on the same day and in Lake Michigan. However, on the Green Bay side (west) of Door County. The water temperature dropped 10f over night (58) two days before the event. It rose to the mid 60s on Sunday but there was 4 foot waves and and a strong current that a full swim impossible. I never heard from any of the participants that a shorten swim was the wrong call.

I get the upper limit restriction, but for the lower limit, doesn't always make sense to me.

It would be nice to see them, when it was too cold, make it optional, but the people who elect to not swim can't compete for age groupawards or something like that. Just a thought..

so this year has been horrible, is IM softening? Isn't the whole idea of Ironman that conditions get tough? they also cancelled IM 70.3 Gulf Coast due to strong currents and riptides and shortened IM 70.3 Chattanooga due to a strong current (this one was absurd, they actually let the pros swim the whole course but shortened it for the AG)...

i was asking a friend who's been around for a while about swim cancellations at IMFL (since im doing it in November) and he told me "back in those days (2003-2004) they didn't cancelled swims.. a lot of people have talked about RD concerned on safety of weaker competitors, but what will happen if IM keeps seeing weaker and weaker people coming into it precisely because they are more and more lenient and willing to relax the rules and make it easier for the average unprepared "athlete"? i think IM should man up, its supposed to be tough!