Please recommend a swim in 2008

Dave, The 8-mile NY to VT swim in Lake Champlain is a great event, and the Burlington area is worth hanging around in for awhile. No guarantee on temps in the mid 70's. www.gbymca.org/.../lakeswim.html Good Luck, Hopper www.swimvacation.com

Thanks Hopper! Any other recommendations are greatly appreciated!

Try these if you want to travel. ( Site seeing) 1. Lake Tahoe swim in No Cal. Its colder then 70's though. (Tahoe area, Reno) 2. Swim round Alcatraz from San Francisco. Its less then 5 miles but a tough swim water temp about 60. (San Francisco bay area) 3. Potomac river swim 7.5 miles from Maryland to Va. at the mouth where it meets the Chesapeake Bay water temp about 70.(Southern Maryland Wash DC Annapolis Md.) 4.Chesapeake Bay Swim. 4.4 miles at the big bridge but I think its full. water temp about 68 (Annapolis Md ,US Naval Academy, Wash DC, Md eastern Shore) 5. Several swims in the New York City area like little red lighthouse swim about 5 miles 68 water (NYC Big Apple) Your best bet might be the Potomac River swim for distance and temp. Water temps over 70 is pretty warm , tropical.

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Hi - Perhaps you could join nomad64 in his 95-mile, 10-day swim dam to dam across Lake of the Ozarks. Many organized swims are mentioned in the "rants and raves" OW thread; see anything there? Hawaii, Virgin Islands, a few other semitropical places. Big Shoulders event in Chicago (second weekend in September) offers a 5k, slightly over 3 miles. It is also possible to swim 10 or 20 miles along the Lake Michigan shoreline. Not officially sanctioned, but it is done. The thread on Great Lakes swims has a link to Michigan Masters, which may offer some possibilities. Good luck! VB

Thanks Vivebene!

I second the Lake Champlain swim. Keep in mind that it isn't really a race, per se, and that it can be VERY hard to find a support boat unless you start way in advance. Water temp is more like 67-72, as I recall. There is a 10k in Fort Collins, Colorado, you might consider, although it is at altitude. The Swim for Life in Chestertown Maryland is nice, although it is in a river and does, typically, have a bit of current-fighting in it. It's in July this year, so water temp should be comfy. I also second the Little Red Light House swim in NYC, if you are feeling adventurous. It's no lake, but doing a race in the Hudson river like that gives you serious bragging rights, if only because everyone thinks it's an open sewer (it's not & it's pretty clean, unless it rains hard.) -LBJ

Thanks for the recommendations Lapswimmr!

www.swimlakegeorge.org in upstate NY has some really great distance swims planned for '08. They're still working out the exact details but it's a beautiful local. 2nd -the Horsetooth 10k :)

St. Croix 5 mile Reef Swim. Absolutely the best.