7:00 to 9:00
Weather -Overcast/Foggy, Light Sprinkles, Not too hot
About 300 athletes participated, and this makes our 3rd triathalon. For the short course, swimmers did 400 meters around the cove, and in the long course, swimmers did 1500 meters around the cove and then out across the Cumberland. Swimmers entered the Cumberland and were to swim across and then back around the buoy. The problem was that when they swam across, they got caught in the current and couldn't make the turn to go 'upstream'. I ended up paddling near one athlete for a VERY long time. He just could NOT make any progress to go upstream towards the buoy. He would swim a few feet, stop and rest, and then end up back right where he started. It was very frustrating for me, but he kept insisting that he would do it on his own. I think I was in the same spot for 20 minutes. Scotty came along and between the two of us, we convinced him that he could hang onto the kayak. Slowly, but surely, he finally made it to the buoy and then back across the river into the cove. I'm pretty sure that he was embarassed that he couldn't make it, but I had such admiration for him. I couldn't even imagine attempting a triathalon. Scotty looked up his time later and he did not come in last, although he was the last and very late swimmer to get out of the Cumberland.
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