 like 15 to 20 degrees warmer than most of my swims and the air temperature was was even hotter than that and joe and my husband and i had talked out a kind of big plan of hydrating a little more aggressively than i do in other swims so every every half hour they signal to stop and throw me a water bottle that's attached to a line so they can pull it back i know you've done the other major routes of open water swimming the english channel long beach to catalina island but