gbc0005 wrote:
are the jellyfish really that bad? Seems like every race report i've read, that person got stung during the swim.
While I've known people to get stung, I find the jellyfish talk a bit overblown. I raced IMFL in 2014 and 2017. In 2014, while the swim was canceled on race day (only time in race's history), I did a practice swim on Thursday and only saw a few of the big cannonball jellyfish which are harmless, and most of those were a few feet deep so you pass right over them. In 2017, I didn't see a single jellyfish in either the practice swim or on race day.