Quote Originally Posted by KnottedYet
(ie: if I cut my dang foot getting into or out of the H2O I'm gonna be mightily p.o.ed)
My mother in law did the Seattle Danskin last year (my lazy self watched). Assuming it's the same as last year, you run out of the lake onto a grassy field, and pretty much everyone was in bare feet. I don't remember seeing anything else, and there was jogging/running going on so it must have been tolerable.