This morning I did 1800 meters open water from Cayman Beach Suites up to Seven Mile Public Beach as my final long practice swim for the Flowers Sea Swim on Saturday. I finished in just under 49 minutes averaging about 2:43 per hundred meters. That is three practice swims of at least a metric mile in the past week. I will get in a short 800 meter swim tomorrow afternoon just to get in the water and then the big race is Saturday afternoon. We don't know yet if it is a mile from the Ritz up to Tiki Beach or down to Royal Palms as that will depend on the current. That shouldn't affect us, but we will see.
Katie has been doing here work in the pool at Camana and has been doing up to 2100 meters at a clip. We both feel ready and while we wont be anywhere near the leaders we both have personal time goals of between 40 and 45 minutes for the race. We are both interested in seeing which Olympic athletes, current and former have come for race this year. With London just less than 2 months away we expect to see a lot of former Olympians but not many current ones.
