And, we're off!

This was my first time jumping into a lake with a bunch of other people and it is pretty terrible to tell the truth. I wish they did the race like a time-trial where everyone got their own start a few seconds apart. Everyone just spread out wide in front of me and then proceeded to swim way slower than imaginable so that I was pretty much trapped behind them and couldn't get into a rhythym of swimming. Half way to the first buoy, I thought 'I can't do this" but also couldn't figure out the logistics of quitting so...