Limmat - Swimming 45 mins against the current

That's great! I have the largest endless-pool in the world directly in front of my appartment! The Limmat river has at the "Werdinsel" a very nice current to swim against. I got also used to the cold water after 10 minutes. I found also a trick: to spare some air to breathe it out of the nose. I don't know why, but after the 5th stroke I paniced sometimes. Now, breathing out of the nose takes this panic away. Great stuff! I want to be an Ironman.

I was also looking at the race course. Pretty steep bike course. The mountains in Bogor/Indonesia look like speed bumpers compared to that!

By the way: profound Ironman information you may also find at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironman_Triathlon. There you can read also a list of all the Hawaii-Ironman winners and their times down to 1978.