Grimaldo’s Mile 2008

Dave and I headed out to Coney Island for our second consecutive Grimaldo’s Mile swim today. When I arrived at 6am, the full moon was still really visible, so I was really banking on an amazing performance. Official time: 36:27, which is not amazing and probably not correct. I started in the 3rd wave and I don’t think my time was adjusted (last year I finished in 31:25 in much choppier conditions).

The water was nice and calm and I was really feeling the Total Immersion swim coaching helping me out today — like I wasn’t working that hard, but I was still motoring. The water was thick with jellyfish, but it didn’t really bother me.

The post-race party was dreadful though. Aside from terrible food (how hard is it to supply good bagels in Brooklyn?) there was a ridiculous band. They played Creep by Radiohead, which I couldn’t even wrap my head around at first, but then I realized it was for the line “You’re so very [fuckin] special” because the back-up singer then chimed in calmly, “you’re ALL very special for finishing the race today!” I guess CIBBOWS couldn’t afford Marty Culp and Bobbie Moughan-Culp, so they settled for these cats.