Grimaldo’s Mile 2009
Today Dave and I swam our third consecutive Grimaldo’s Mile with CIBBOWS - a one mile swim from Coney Island to Brighton Beach. I feel better about my performance every year, but every year my time seems to increase by about 5 minutes. This year’s official time was 40:41 and I managed to finish at the exact same time as Dave again (last year was 36:27). Of course, the time in any open water swim is more a product of the conditions and the current than my performance and it was pretty rough today. My wings and shoulders were pretty sore after the race - all those pullups, pushups, and deadlifts the past couple of days were probably not so wise in retrospect.
