SnappingT wrote:
The issue with the water temp you are talking about is you can have "after drop." It's when you get out of cold water and your core body temp drops. I would suggest putting a routine together of running, bands, medicine balls to use before you get into race. Then also make sure you are training to acclimate in to that water temp. When you are comparing percentage place in the field, what's the size of the field in the races?
I hope this helps,
Tim
So you also would not recommend getting into the water before cold swims and just warm up on shore?
The fields I'm referring to are fields of 300-500 participants typically. Not a IM or HIM, typically Oly races, but the top finishers on the OA tend to be national-caliber racers (team EMJ commonly).
I actually pretty consistently place top 2-5 in my AG in the swim and surprisingly have several top AG swims, but this is definitely way more because of a soft field on race day in my M45-49 AG bracket on my races, as I'm getting absolutely blown away by the overall top swimmers, whom often beat me by 10 minutes in an Oly (!!)