Braving The Ocean For An Open Water Swim Practice

I had another chance to do an open water swim practice, the furthest I’ve done since starting to train for sprint triathlons over a year ago. The ocean swim was down on the Gulf coast of Florida across a bay from one shore to another. I wasn’t sure how I’d handle going across a whole bay, with a light chop and boats and wildlife, but it went really fine! Didn’t see one shark which kind of makes sense because the water was so murky I could barely see my hands underwater. In official races, I’ve only done lakes and rivers so the ocean is a difference experience for sure. This practice was my last swim before a race tomorrow, a triathlon celebrating Independence Day. I’ll post more from that race afterwards but for now here are a few pics from the ocean swim…

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-Out of the Wilderness