I was thinking about this while driving to work today! I saw on FB that he completed it, but I was curious to hear what he thought.
A few people from my swim class did it (as always...one of them was her 10th) and they said the current was worse than usual because the impending whether threw off the timing a bit?
Thanks for asking! He was glad he did it, but I don't know that he would say it was fun. The current was pretty crazy according to others. He had nothing to really compare it to though. The things he mentioned other than the current, were that there were swimmers nearby the entire time, it got kind of boring since you really can't see anything, and the water tasted like diesel (puke emoji). We were able to see him coming in, which I didn't think we'd be able to do. It was a mix of the no wetsuit, no watch, and his paleness that set him apart. He even put some butterfly in at the end b/c my 10-year-old requested it. He was definitely one and done after, but now he's like "yeah, maybe I'll do it again sometime. I know I can do it better". Haha. A guy that he swims with was the oldest finisher at 81!