I plan on doing the Big Shoulders Swim in Chicago next month for the first time. Will drive up from Cincinnati on the day before. If I go to the Ohio St. Beach the afternoon/evening before, is it likely that I will get in a warm-up swim?
If not, is there another place on the lake that would be good to get used to the lake? I have a reciprocating Y membership that will get me into the Lakewood Y, but I'd rather swim in the lake instead of a 20y pool.
Thanks for the help, and to all of you who have said that this OWS is addictive, you can say that again.
4:25 a.m. surface temps, Wednesday, 9-3
Southern Lake Michigan has a big range of 54 - 74 deg. F at the sensing buoys. What interested me was a big mass of cold, 34 deg. water just north of Chicago.
www.coastwatch.msu.edu/.../m5.html
The lake looked pretty calm today, so the 6 a.m. swimmers went out, only to turn back at quarter-mile mark because of troughs, horses' manes, and a current that picked up (where it usually does). We had to work to get back, and the breaststrokers did better than the crawlers.
This is not in the harbor where Big Shoulders is swum but close enough. You never know.
Weather is supposed to be mostly sunny with some cloudy patches on Saturday.
Regards, VB
4:25 a.m. surface temps, Wednesday, 9-3
Southern Lake Michigan has a big range of 54 - 74 deg. F at the sensing buoys. What interested me was a big mass of cold, 34 deg. water just north of Chicago.
www.coastwatch.msu.edu/.../m5.html
The lake looked pretty calm today, so the 6 a.m. swimmers went out, only to turn back at quarter-mile mark because of troughs, horses' manes, and a current that picked up (where it usually does). We had to work to get back, and the breaststrokers did better than the crawlers.
This is not in the harbor where Big Shoulders is swum but close enough. You never know.
Weather is supposed to be mostly sunny with some cloudy patches on Saturday.
Regards, VB
