Back at Ashanti, this time for the Western Province Open Water Swimming Series event 2. The schedule included my first 10km of the season followed by a 3km. With a 4 week break between WP Open Water 1 and WP Open Water 2 there was a lot of time to work on racing form and strategy. However, having had a bout of flu and an erratic training schedule for the two weeks after the last event, I was a bit anxious to see how things would go. The week leading up this event had been relatively consistent and was the first week of solid training I had managed to complete in quite a while.
The weather on Saturday was appalling, we arrived at Ashanti with the wind howling and rain pouring. The weather leading up to this event had been very warm which had left the water temperature in the mid twenties. Even though the rain was falling, it was very comfortable in the water. I had a good warm-up before race briefing and discussed my feeding strategy with my coach, Brendon.
10km and 5km swim start
