NYC Swim dropping shorter races
evmo
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This discussion was created from comments split from: Manhattan Island Marathon Swim 2013.
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Right on, Greg. The MIMS should remain a race and not a solo effort. Racing a long swim is a completely different animal than a solo effort. Leave it the way it is.
If C3 were to happen again, unlikely unless someone else takes the reigns or I revamp it further down the line, swimmers would definitely need at least an individual escort boat (thus jacking up the price unless done like @gregoc whereby finding your own escort boat and keeping the entrance fees affordable) or the swim would need to be conducted on a solo basis (much easier to coordinate the success/completion of one swim than 10+).
I don't wear a wetsuit; it gives the ocean a sporting chance.
A forum member showed me this a couple of months back: Lady Liberty Sharkfest.
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Holy crap. $150 for a 1.5 mile swim.
We're all just carbon, water, starlight, oxygen and dreams
At least with the South End Invitational you get breakfast, you get trinkets, you get Lynne Cox, you get a t-shirt...
And if you are doing a cost by distance analytic, MIMS is about the same. $2500 for 28.5 miles.
EC- ~ $3000 for 21 miles. That's pilot fees alone.
What I'm getting at is you can't really do a "cost per mile" analytic. Well , you can but it doesn't really make sense.
And I do calculus based on other costs too. If that 1.5 miles were here in DC, I'd probably do it, because it would cost next to nothing for me to get there. But to go all the way to NY, hotel, then only swim a 1.5. Nope.
But I don't blame the organizers! Before anyone yells at me about that. I understand it costs big bucks to run these things. I'm just going to spend my money (limited though it is) elsewhere.
We're all just carbon, water, starlight, oxygen and dreams
I don't wear a wetsuit; it gives the ocean a sporting chance.
I don't care as long as races I go to have separate divisions.
We're all just carbon, water, starlight, oxygen and dreams