Race Report: TriRock Clearwater
Pre Race This past weekend I raced TriRock Clearwater. I planned the race because my wife, who works for Team Challenge of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation, had to work the event with her team. I had been assisting with coaching the National Capital Region team and so it made sense to tag along and do the race. I signed up for the sprint as this was theoretically a vacation and I didn’t want to deal with the longer distance. I had also never done a true ocean swim before. I know that technically Clearwater is not on the ocean but on the gulf. However, it’s still a large body of salt water with waves, rip currents, marine life, etc so it’s an ocean swim. We did a practice swim with the team on Saturday morning . I was working with one of our newer swimmers in the water getting used to the swells and waves. We were about 200m or so off shore when I saw a fin in front of us. Being me, I grabbed her and we swam back toward shore. I was 100% sure we’d be attacked by a shark. Fish (and p