What Goes Around Comes Around
Veteran marathon swimmer Suzie Dods announced a 24-hour relay for Aquatic Park in San Francisco on February 8th-9th, 2014.The course will be entirely set up within Aquatic Park where the water temperature is expected to be around 10ºC (50ºF) in February.
The four-person relay will have to deal with some fairly cool water temperatures in mid-winter. Dods explains, “Why winter? Because it’ll be hardcore. We are sticking with one cap. Jammers are fine. Each team will be allowed one wetsuit swimmer. This has been something I’ve been thinking about for years and Aquatic Park is the place to do it..”
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Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Daily News of Open Water Swimming and founder of WOWSA. Inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Swimmer, Class of 2001) and Ice Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Contributor - Media, Class of 2019), recipient of the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Poseidon Award (2016), International Swimming Hall of Fame's Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award (2010).
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