My friend just announced that her grandfather swam in the Olympics, when the swimming competion was done in the Hudson River. She is 40.
What does she mean by this? I don't think any Olympics were in NY, but could they have trained there? Or is she fibbing? :joker:
Just curious...SmartSwimmeroftheDay award to the person who knows!
I did Outward Bound courses in Maine and in Minnesota that both involved getting into VERY cold water. In Maine, we'd run a couple miles, then jump off a pier about 12 feet or so above the water. People thought I was nuts when I said that was my favorite part of the day. But it took a lot less coordination to jump from that pier than to do most of the other stuff I had to do. And asking to go again was a great source of consternation to onlookers. ;)
I actually got to like the water temp and started to find seventy a little too warm. About a year after the Maine Outward Bound course, I went on a hiking vacation in the Maine/NH area (the kinder gentler breed of "camping"--relaxing in a bed at night). Some of the hikes involved stops for an invigorating dip in one of the ice cold ponds, and I was always the only adult female to take these dips.
None of these quick swims would be adequate preparation for anything more than maybe a mile of a cold open water swim, but they were so refreshing after being warmed up from hiking!
I did Outward Bound courses in Maine and in Minnesota that both involved getting into VERY cold water. In Maine, we'd run a couple miles, then jump off a pier about 12 feet or so above the water. People thought I was nuts when I said that was my favorite part of the day. But it took a lot less coordination to jump from that pier than to do most of the other stuff I had to do. And asking to go again was a great source of consternation to onlookers. ;)
I actually got to like the water temp and started to find seventy a little too warm. About a year after the Maine Outward Bound course, I went on a hiking vacation in the Maine/NH area (the kinder gentler breed of "camping"--relaxing in a bed at night). Some of the hikes involved stops for an invigorating dip in one of the ice cold ponds, and I was always the only adult female to take these dips.
None of these quick swims would be adequate preparation for anything more than maybe a mile of a cold open water swim, but they were so refreshing after being warmed up from hiking!
