My dear wife and I just rolled in to Louisville this afternoon. The Ohio river is looking very clean and clear at the momment but:
The current temperature of the river as measured at depths ranging from 18" to 6’ in the area in front of Joe’s Crab shack was a very consistant and uniform 85.3 degrees Fahrenheit today at 6:30pm.
The air temperature was still a nice toasty 96 F. at the same time.
The local forecast is for daytime highs in the mid to high 90s until Saturday and nightly lows in the high seventies.
Yeah - I love saying “nice swim” as I blow by on the bike or seeing you floppy ankled fish wilting in the heat on the run … Unfortunately, the weather is going to suck, so throw some expected times out the window!
Yeah - I love saying “nice swim” as I blow by on the bike or seeing you floppy ankled fish wilting in the heat on the run … Unfortunately, the weather is going to suck, so throw some expected times out the window!
85 is bit hot like the senior or kids pool at the Y.
But probably a few degrees cooler in the actual channel and with some scattered showers saturday might be low 80’s
But forecasts are talking about mid 80’s sunday so weather actual is gonna be cool especially since we’ve seen over 100 if you count heat index for almost 4 weeks here in memphis couple weeks over 100 without heat index.
course would rather it not rain (raw sewage…)
Who cares how warm the water is or what the ambient air temperature is? We signed up for this race knowing full well that it was to be held in August. I am sorry that some of you find the conditions might be less than ideal for you to earn your Kona spot on this day. Get over it and race!
Ah, because this is WTC and NOT IM NA or NA Sports or whatever Frazier’s company is now called. The only other IM they do is Kona where the water temps are the same! Funny how the temp will be similar (actually hotter) then Kona, but the landscape (esp the swim) couldn’t be any different!
Right … I did hear that WTC is having Tom Ziebart dumping a bunch of tropical fish in the swim lane out of some Gatorade bottles … not that you could see much past your hand!
i am thinking of doing the swim in a speedo just to crack people up and get inside their heads…I think laughing about it might ease some of the pre race nerves…the jury’s still out.
Nothing wrong with a speedo for a long, hot swim! Hell, I might just wear one as well. I’m sure not springing for a “speedsuit” to save 30 secs and look crazy, that is for sure - but I’m sure I will see a bunch there!
Ah, because this is WTC and NOT IM NA or NA Sports or whatever Frazier’s company is now called.
Rod,
It’s North American Sports or NAS and it’s Graham Fraser.
As for the potential conditions in Louisville - Yikes, is all I can say. As you said, you can toss just about every time-goal out the window if it’s going to be that hot in the water and on the land.
Tuesday morning (8/21) update at 6:40am in front of Joe’ Crab shack
Air temperature - 80 F.
Water temperature from 18" to 8’ depth- 84.6 F.
It was windy all night with white caps this morning.
The sky was mostly cloudy at this time with very little light for an open water swim. One might hope that the swim buoys will have lights on them as conditions are too dim for color vision.
Rain started at 6:50 cutting visibility to a few hundred yards.
Live in Louisville - and we have just set a record for consecutive days above 90 (at 22). We’ve set several high temp records in that period (one day 105). But - the forecast for race day - the best temps we’ve had in more than a month. We are getting rain today - first real rain in a while - so that will help river temps too.
will you also run in said speedo?