Dear Tord and others, I did check the statistics of water temps: on March 19th the water temperatures were around +3 Centigrades (surface, close the coastline, 38 F), according the Meteorologic and Hydrologic Institute of Sweden. It is no wonder that swimming the one kilometre (1093 yards) took 45 to 50 minutes. I could not find any data about the air temps, but during yesterday the maximum in Karlstad was +6 Centigrades (daytime, 42,8 F) - +2 Centigrades (night, 35,6 F). And these guys were in *extremely* good condition. Mr. Rappe was competing in World Championship Multisport games... I believe there are lessons to be learned. Ari Fin-land *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Mar 25 2007 - 18:22:16 PDT
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