Dilbert wrote:
It will be a clusterfuck. Next year the swim will go back to how it was. Giving weak tri swimmers this swim would be like expecting amateurs to descend the crazy Giro courses, or run in Death Valley. Guaranteed some people wouldn't have signed up if they knew the swim course was going to be this.I'm signed up for Oceanside and I'll swim in whatever. I don't care.
My concern is this decision could lead to a swim cancellation or shortened swim. I hope their contingency is to go with the old course if necessary.
I'm not an experienced ocean swimmer, with my only similar experience really being IMFL 2x, but I'm up for anything. That stated, it's pretty shitty to spring the ocean swim on people less than three months from race day. A friend of mine is also doing the race and I don't think this news was much appreciated by her at all. She's going to worry about it and my guess is that she would not have registered for the race had this been the swim course of record at the time.
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