This is what happened this morning.
The water is much calmer here, so the swimming is easier than at East Coast, but despite my improved timing, I once again came in close to last in the swim leg. Even with the rope guides and lack of currents, I still managed to swim all over place.
At least I used the front crawl most of the way unlike in the last Aquathlon where I relied mostly on the breast stroke.
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But I was still so slow that I was overtaken by the next wave of swimmers - and possibly the wave after that.
Trying to avoid people swimming into me also contributed to me swimming all over the place.
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MetaSprint Series Aquathlon
Posted by Su Mann Ong on Monday, February 29, 2016
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The good news is that my results improved over my last Aquathlon results (below).
I cut my overall time from over one hour to 55 minutes. Aided by the cool weather, I reduced my 5km run time by more than a minute. And even my 750m swim time was reduced by four minutes.
Woohoo!
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I just wish I could stop coming in last in the swim leg.
Even my wife, who took all these photos (except the Finisherpix), asked me: "How is it that even really fat guys can come out of the water before you?"
EARLIER: Road to my first Singapore Aquathlon (Or seawater tastes really disgusting)