OK all jokes about growing an extra limb or coming out cooked. Will I have to worry about the water in the Hudson north of the Tappan Zee Bridge?
Do any OW swimmer take any meds to prevent any sicknesses. I don't plan to drink the water...
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Princess Studmuffin,
Do you need me to come protect you from the wildlife?
I bet Leonard has some good horror stories for you....Yoohoo, Leonard, are you out there?
Hi Swimmy -
Am still around occasionally - have been too busy taking care of my wife (neurological problem) and my mother (senility) to swim much or have much time here. Sigh...
Other than the jellyfish sting from H@ll last year (in the East River and I was numb for almost 2 hours after) and then getting violently, deathly ill for three days after MIMs, I've just had the usual assortment of open water perils. The only really odd one was the time at the Swim For Life in Chestertown, MD when I got my hand caught/sliced up in an abandoned crab trap during the 5 mile. I also got a fishhook in my foot during the Lehigh River Swim. My worst open water injury occured on dry land BEFORE my first race when a woman dropped a park picnic table on my foot and broke a toe.
Stud just has to remember the open water swimmer's creed: If you can't see it, it can't hurt you.
Hope you are well,
LBJ
Princess Studmuffin,
Do you need me to come protect you from the wildlife?
I bet Leonard has some good horror stories for you....Yoohoo, Leonard, are you out there?
Hi Swimmy -
Am still around occasionally - have been too busy taking care of my wife (neurological problem) and my mother (senility) to swim much or have much time here. Sigh...
Other than the jellyfish sting from H@ll last year (in the East River and I was numb for almost 2 hours after) and then getting violently, deathly ill for three days after MIMs, I've just had the usual assortment of open water perils. The only really odd one was the time at the Swim For Life in Chestertown, MD when I got my hand caught/sliced up in an abandoned crab trap during the 5 mile. I also got a fishhook in my foot during the Lehigh River Swim. My worst open water injury occured on dry land BEFORE my first race when a woman dropped a park picnic table on my foot and broke a toe.
Stud just has to remember the open water swimmer's creed: If you can't see it, it can't hurt you.
Hope you are well,
LBJ
