The 2.4 mile swim started here at a marina in downtown Louisville. We jumped into the Ohio river every 2 seconds and headed up-stream between an island and the shoreline.The water temp was a balmy 85 degrees so it didn't take long for the swim to get just a little uncomfortable.
Of course the locals who asked us: "y'all swimming in the Ohio River??? You better not open your mouth!" didn't help with the comfort level either.
But as we headed up-stream we went past the end of the island, which was where the course map showed we then turned, but we headed up a bit further (about 3 water buoys extra) and finally began to turn left to get out into the main part of the river to head back down-stream.
Right as I was making the turn, the sun popped up from the horizon line and for a moment I thought how beautiful it was. It was to be this same sun that would have quite an affect on not only myself, but many of the 2,996 racers that day in Louisville.
I made it down-stream, under the two bridges we swam under (very clean bridges I must say) and finally made it to the end of the swim feeling pretty good. No major physical "altercations" like last year; except for the freak who grabbed my leg and held on for a second or two early-on in the swim which was a little weird.
As the volunteer pulled me up out of the water I looked down at my watch as was happy to see 1 hour 17 minutes and change. I knew this was at or under my time from last year. Being this was a non wetsuit race versus a wetsuit race last year, I was very happy.
Official swim time was 1:17:16 - 42 seconds faster than last year.
Onto transition #1 and the bike.
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