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I agree with Karen, Victor, Dave and Seth. 78F is WAY too warm to
allow wetsuits (not only for elites but also for age groupers in my
opinion). I can see having a slightly higher temp for longer distance
races but any elite should be able to handle 72F for an hour.

Unless there is a swim prime on the line that is open to both amateurs
and pros then who cares if the age groupers get to wear wetsuits when
the pros do not? We race by different rules and under different
conditions (assuming a separate pro start) so the times can never be
truly compared anyhow.

-Laurie

--- In e-litebeat@yahoogroups.com, karen/mike <mkandks@...> wrote:
>
> For the shorter races the ITU rule seems to be best but the problem
> lies in the longer distance races when there is a mass start--the age
> groupers are allowed to wear wetsuits upt to 78-degrees so there are
> many more of them that can keep up with the professionals which
> makes it a much more crowded, risky, frustrating swim. And then
> those same age groupers are there at the beginning of the bike making
> pack-riding more prevalent. Perhaps we could at the very least have
> the lower temp in effect whenever the pros have a separate wave
> (which I personally wish would be always). There is still the pesky
> issue of age groupers comparing their times to the pros when they
> operated under different rules, but most of us could live with that.
> We should push for separate waves whenever possible as well.
>
> The other question is whether the ITU temp is appropriate for the
> longer distances. Swimming 1500 meters during an Olympic distance
> race at that temp is quite different from swimming 2.4 miles during
> an Ironman (the pace is slower so you don't generate as much body
> heat and you tend to lose more heat over the longer course of the
> swim). I would think a slight graduated temp might be reasonable (72-
> degrees?) but I doubt we will get everyone to agree on what that is.
> I agree that 78 degrees is way too warm for wetsuits for professionals.
>
> Karen Smyers
>

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