Playa del Carmen NOW

hello and welcome to the Playa Del Carmen Now podcast is about the El Cruces it's open no wait the what they grew said it is the official name and I guess right now and it's an Open Water Swim that happens every year from Cancun to Isla Mujeres yes or at least we're going to find out more we have this amazing guest here with us today hi my name is Ken Schmidt I am the CEO of condo hotels Playa Del Carmen and my sidekick on Javier resendiz right here with can and with this amazing guest today
meet us at Bodega open Waters okay you going to do it from now on all right so before we start talking at what welcome to the show thank you for coming before we start with talking about Open Water Swimming in this group better let's talk about Playa del Carmen Marissa you've been here for how many how many you been in Playa de Carmen for how long for years now is just a dirt road you'll do water and one road to the ocean of course you probably have many secrets about wild Apartments of when family and friends or when somebody visit you from out of Playa Del Carmen where do you take them what location do you take him well I like to take people to the unknown player Carmen the one we'll leave like the you and Xavier and I tried to find new things you've experienced for my people to come and I just discovered one chocolate Fabric in Playa de Carmen that is in the high in the road 220
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and then there's the big swim the big cross complete the crossing which is a full 10 km swim
so me to tell us more about this swim what's what's let's start by what What's the diff what is an Open Water competition I mean the name say it but he's the one to take out of a pool is going to be in the sea it can be in Lake Galien River recovery in I don't know what is the one that you practice but you know in the pool so they don't have you don't have something that limits your your swimming okay you can go in the swimming Open Water swims in the in the polls with fizzy water and then with the hot Waters may be like in in the area and Dubai and they open water thing a lot of competitions and listen to right now from some years ago and now it's many many people practice the open Words with Mickey we have the the swimming's and we have a community Deuces and the community is Lowe's and many teams and the swimmers that practice the Open Water swimmer that day and they're one of the most and the principal's swimming's in Playa del Carmen is a big one this is the big one that they're all training for it cuz the I'm sure you have to train I'm sure your daddy I'm sure somebody like me just can't go out their nails with with six months six months of training training you can practice the whole the whole your whole treatment training in the sea or in the pool or combined pool and Carmen so the sea is right here we just going to walk right out and swim as far as we can write up some rules first one we have to be due Sakura swim in the most important people to do in by two people would you find a partner that swim alone never never never never never can find someone deported the going swimming with you and we use a boy that we all sat in the floating and it's it has to be used for two things the first is for secure if maybe you can tired you can raise your other one doesn't come flying by
play or we try to go in the group because everyone have their voice so it's more visibility for boats and forget key and the principal dangerous not sharks or animals did they think of me when they don't bother you almost 40 years that I swim in open Waters I never saw a Shark Carmen I mean the Sharks just hang out here where I'm from Dayton Toyota on you they are the coals correct
I never saw never saw shark a shark and the people I swim with anyone have a shark attack or see a shark because that's one of the issues in Our Minds when we think on swimming on the ocean right lights and they can't they bite you and maybe you can have some today or something like that very sketchy but that's it but no you don't have to be afraid of is there a is there a Medusa season here to jellyfish season in Playa del Carmen and we have jellyfishes the whole they come with the currents and someone you can we can find them soon sometime if you don't
snorkel over in Cozumel and just right in front of Cozumel right in front of the pier they take you cuz there's some underwear water military boats there and as I was swimming the little the little purple Medusa's were hitting me and I'm like I got to get out of the water in a little by little big deal so no killing the vinegar white vinegar we also have a when we went off when we go to the see if you need someone bites you at the end of the week swim you can put the vinegar or
is that is that real is that for real I don't know
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So In The Swim I did read that I didn't notice that the water dip the water depth from Cancun to Isla Mujeres you can see the bottom pretty much 90% of the time this hundred percent of water is 20 feet which is 20 feet of 787 M72 15 M deep is the deepest section where they're swimming I didn't know that that's craziness but I think that that you can see the bottom of the sea gives you a security and there's no deep but you don't say anything you'll see the bottom
swimming outside of pilot Carmen do you swim straight out when we used to swim is it from Cocoa Beach to Punta Miranda just you go like horizont you go parallel with the beach far from the very high safety is to come near to the coast another place that we used to swim there's many swimmers let's go to Chicago. OK Google pull up friend that is swimming Playa Caracol in Playa Langosta always new to the that's great how many people is going to participate in this one
more or less like 200
and of course nobody can not everybody can swim this you have to be registered and use you have to register and you have to do to have a previous preparation you have to train very hard for almost six months and the thing is did you have a good nutrition see a doctor maybe have a medical clearance saying that that you're okay that you're you're in good enough shape let's get out there anybody can do it but first you need to to go for these steps right okay and you have to have a trainer
and even in the crew see when you sign and you measure the resistor they give you options from people that can in line train you gotta be so safe swim but if you prefer you can go you can go one day and say all I want to do the cruise and it's in the week so I would assume that you prepare yourself or you train yourself and there's two two big swims there's the the what's it called the iron spider iron 8 km and so when are they when they do that what do they do they just take you out to 3.8 or do they do it parallel to the defense of the weather sometimes they take you out and you come I just went back and sometimes they do like a secret
before the Crusades the most of the times are going to point you go from Playa Cancun to Isla Mujeres sometimes a nicer change the route because of the weather weather in the year 2050 I don't remember the weather doesn't allowed to go to point the point they stopped it they did the same thing with the the Explorer the Explorer they do the boats what's the miles did really safety is the first four of the the ones who organized the event and for the swimmers I participate in 1998 to 2020
2818 and the day I go to the event to pick up my kid and we have the the the Quinta the meeting to meeting they cancel David and they stopped raining for today since 8 so we have to stop now it's canceled living we have to wait until Saturday at night and in the thirties allowed to do I open the ports closed the port for this Crusade so that there's no boats going no books at all
it's very very security they have four lines of security for the swimmers are the boys in the first time that are paddle boards and as a kayak then comes little little boats they come both more bigger and in the Ford Road and comes the Army in The Middle's with medical symptoms and if they see a swimmer go out of the line out of the route they put some that are very there are so many people volunteers that go and have
they do with it people that do kayaks correctly so have you done if you done the cruise and how how was that tell me what what did it feel like to get across where you like oh my God I made it survived
for the first cruise to a because I have two or three times the first time they do I was so exciting and eye training very hard in the pool and go my distance in the sea and then once time cic I don't know who I am really now to do the thing so I go to fly to Cancun and happened to the line and I have a big day because I saw eleven Paris and I think it's not too far when I come here and I okay I finished my training and say I'm ready and the first time I've decided I go with so many friends from Playa Del Carmen because we are have a huge community and we start and we go into the sea we heard a baby
starting is so excited and then you begin swimming you don't think anything you want to go the only swim there's a point when you are swimming and you can see the hotels behind you and they come for a far and there's two point in the middle I think that just stop I stopped and I see okay. What I am doing I saw the same distance in the front and the same distance in my back so I don't know I have to go front
even I made the weekly than I think I would have amazing amazing congratulations and you did it and you completed it like it the first time. The first time I hope I can go next time this I don't prepare myself but next time to 2023 I think I will do again it's really nice and I invite all the people that like to swim to do that it's really amazing it's like run a marathon but swimming and one activate let me know before and there is way to Seto and I want to swim for a half mile
can't register even can swim with their dad or with your mom after they 3.8 Mile right they do that they do that and then they do beginners and kids somebody like me be like oh my God we're too far I got to go back to go in the even like these you want to go for more that's amazing motivating me to do this are you going to be my partner Hobby in this yes yes I I think I'm going out with you cuz you are being recognized as a from the world Open Water swimming at your station
level 2 when you're on the team the Medusa team right or is the Medusa team is what team is beginning with these with a Frankel Claudia because we saw the necessity of the swimmers to go when the group many people that go to swim with a sewing alone and then back a lot of it when we went to participate there to the marathon the swimming and we have the best experience that swimmer has a way to bring the cross so we the people of the association Donato's on the internet has been divorced and try to make the people to use the boy so when someone comes to us to Medusa's and tell how can what can I do
But first you have to buy a boy and then we can go swim and then a week week week rate Medusa and we invite people we put the date and what I see and go swim together in a group and then these Community go bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and then from Medusa comes are people that say okay I'm going now and when I am a gold I want to do my my own team and it's okay so now with Medusa is a group that allows many games that's amazing and it's really really cold now while I watch the the trailer the video and I never seen this before they give you water in the water like when you swim in the cross they give you lucky yes if you're lucky I never find the irritation both okay cuz I was watching in the guy stopped and a boat came up and handed him a not a not like a plastic water it was like you know like when you make cakes and you squeeze the cake icing out so that's what I saw him doing is the water into his mouth like a phone I was like oh wow and then I learned that you can't wear a swimsuit because you can get too hot because it's a very the hot time of year so if it's going to be super hot swimming across
that's my guess is if your buddy I love to swim without taking any kind of water like 2 hours after that you can drink water but in this mole and then you can find the boats or both move more or less like a kilometer you can find it but in the crew say it's very very big the sea so it's not easy to to follow a line I was reading that you kind of drift one way or another because of the tides and stuff like that and they have people on the edges and they kind of point you in the right direction and that kind of stuff under a boys that have a person will be able to put things in Instagram pictures I don't recommend it because they sell phone doesn't know to swing by if you need you can put some kind of jealous of your kind of guilt and you don't wear watch a jewelry anything like that because they don't want to attract yes yes at once come up with the water is coming to dinner so maybe if you irritate your skin a awesome so make sure you're amazing. To see how quickly this wind is 25 minutes of being and work done so now how do we find you I I mean I'm looking at the website L cruces.nm exit e l c r u c e d m x where do we find you me to say or Instagram is Medusa's also and we have I can give you a phone we have a chat before it's 9 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 8 8 0 1 8 1 8 3 once again +848-494-801-8183 you can send WhatsApp chats and we give you all the information because we have any kind of teams the ones that only the pool that wants to go to the pool and Beach Al to the Sea for beginners for for intermediate for Masters just to have an idea how much does it cost to train for for that kind of competition for the kind of competition for you for if you can you can afford the pool and we have two options in Playa Carmen there
the I think they can it cost like $400 and you can go one hour everyday and the best you have a trainer maybe to train with some people is like about like citizens of pesos and swims with a scription to the cruise is like 2000 pesos more or less impact on your body song is well recommended for different kind of exercise great exercise Grace okay so and every episode we offer a promotion ding ding ding ding ding soda for this podcast we are going to do hashtag Medusa give you an additional 15% off your summer vacation in one of our condo hotel properties yeah so don't forget that a stag Medusa anyone that comes to these kind of events at this is a nice place to stay and 56 count you definitely like this so M thank you so much for coming today you brought us some amazing material and I am so glad that you told us that you made it three times so it was the third time just as good as the first time when you went across that you can see him occasionally invite you to swim with Medusa great thank you very much and everybody Xavier thank you thank you for all the information and see you next time okay thank you