On a balmy night in July, three long-distance swimmers--David Blanke, from Austin, TX, Marcia Cleveland, from Winnetka, IL, English Channel Swimmer and author of Dover Solo, and Chris Layton, from Chicago, one of this year's online USMS coaches and a coach of Chicago Smelts--decided to go for a swim. They swam the length of Chicago, 23.4 miles. They had many fine adventures en route, saw fireworks, swam near the water intake crib, which I am longing to do, past the Point, where many famous long-distance swimmers still hang out and bob in the waves, and saw the sun rise:
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Congratulations! I think this story should go in Outside magazine!
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The bodies are buried in public campgrounds and on National Forest lands.
There certainly is something (many things) in the lake. Some tris I occasionally swim with have contracted contact dermatitis from something in Lake Michigan. I have come out of Indiana Dunes waters feeling stung by very small jellyfish (none there). Swimming within sight of steel plants and that reactor at Zion is also a pleasure not to be missed.
Not to mention the hidden structures - old piers formerly under 6 feet of water, now 1 or 2; vessels that sank. There's a boat cemetery off northern Indiana coastline.
The bodies are buried in public campgrounds and on National Forest lands.
There certainly is something (many things) in the lake. Some tris I occasionally swim with have contracted contact dermatitis from something in Lake Michigan. I have come out of Indiana Dunes waters feeling stung by very small jellyfish (none there). Swimming within sight of steel plants and that reactor at Zion is also a pleasure not to be missed.
Not to mention the hidden structures - old piers formerly under 6 feet of water, now 1 or 2; vessels that sank. There's a boat cemetery off northern Indiana coastline.
