OW swim competitions ?

Seres

anyone know where there are some oq swim competitions or where i can get access to an events calender on the net for these
Not a good swimmer and need practice

hunnymonster

list here
http://www.swimleinster.com/OpenSea/Abbot-OSC-2008_WEB.pdf
we're nearly at the end of the season though. Not many races when the water cools.

hunnymonster

Seres, Where are you based. We have swims almost every day here in Cork. I can try to find out who might be doing similar where you are.

Seres

hey hunnymonster
i am based in roscommon/leitrim , boyle/carrick on shannon direction.
Am with a tri club here but i dont think they do much over the winter

hunnymonster

might take me a couple of days but I'll look into it.

Killgore Trout

hunnymonster wrote: »

list here
http://www.swimleinster.com/OpenSea/Abbot-OSC-2008_WEB.pdf
we're nearly at the end of the season though. Not many races when the water cools.

HM beat me to it. Though i will add that the season could easily go on 'till the end of October as the water will be warm enough. Did 8 of those races this year. The distances are generally between 1 and 2 K

It's a shame considering the amount of water around us that there isn't many more OW competitions.

The ILDSA also do some swims - but their season seems to be over too. There were a couple of races on previous calendars that i'd love to do. Some of there races are short - but there is a lot of hardcore savagery there too

http://www.ildsa.info/cgi-bin/members/events.pl?year=2008

Seres

hey HM
just looked at swim site , re the calender is swim season from june to sep ?

Seres

Killgore Trout wrote: »

The ILDSA also do some swims - but their season seems to be over too. There were a couple of races on previous calendars that i'd love to do. Some of there races are short - but there is a lot of hardcore savagery there too

http://www.ildsa.info/cgi-bin/members/events.pl?year=2008

short and fierce is what i need to adjust to , really need to work on my swim for next triathlon , really let me down in the last one , i will be working hard on tecgnique this winter but i also wanted to do some ow races to acclimatise to those savage water conditions , any tips on how i can improve swim , looking to improve it by 4 mins for 750m , from 19.30 to 15.30 , is this achieveable ?

hunnymonster

yes it is certainly achievable. You need to work on two things
1. get your stroke as close to perfect as you can
2. get OW practice.
I would concentrate on 1 over the winter an 2 in the early summer