I swam in the lake for the first time this season - about 20*C which is 68*F. It's a small deep lake fed by a mountain stream. My friends and I have a 1.5km route that can be broken up into 100m/200m/300 segments. It's beautiful; today we swam in soft rain and a light mist and savoured the cold clear lake taste after a winter of pool water... and this weekend I'm going to try the ocean
Which makes me wonder: where do other people swim?
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Originally posted by geochuck
I swim in the water - pool, rivers, lakes or oceans. My preference is a river that winds with heavy currents. When swimming up stream I swim in the slowest moving water. I like to swim up to a waterfall eg. La Bostannais River in Quebec, then out to the fast moving water and back to the starting point. The scenery is amazing and your cares and worries just disappear.
I'm sure others can answer this too, but George, you probably have the most open water experience on this board.
Do you swim with a support boat? From what I undertstand, an open water swimmer is supposed to have a boat, if for no other reason than for visibility (for instance to prevent some water ski tow boat from plowing over him while he's swimming.)
Originally posted by geochuck
I swim in the water - pool, rivers, lakes or oceans. My preference is a river that winds with heavy currents. When swimming up stream I swim in the slowest moving water. I like to swim up to a waterfall eg. La Bostannais River in Quebec, then out to the fast moving water and back to the starting point. The scenery is amazing and your cares and worries just disappear.
I'm sure others can answer this too, but George, you probably have the most open water experience on this board.
Do you swim with a support boat? From what I undertstand, an open water swimmer is supposed to have a boat, if for no other reason than for visibility (for instance to prevent some water ski tow boat from plowing over him while he's swimming.)
