Mine is still about 7 weeks away. (Can't seem to find good place to do so in Cincinnati area.) So I will live vicariously through you for now.:bliss:
Can you move north, and a little west? The Great Lakes make for fine OW swimming.
Where did you swim, and what were the water temperatures?
We swim in a place that is a gray area: approved by one city branch for swimming, not approved by another. So I must be a little reticent. A good site for the closest thing to year-round is www.openwaterchicago.com. Water temps in low 50s; nobody had a measuring implement.
Here in the Denver area we started our Open Water Season on May 2nd.
There were 14 people who showed up at the Chatfield Gravel Pond to swim.
6 had wetsuits and 8 swam in skins. Water temp was 53 degrees. I swam for about 4 minutes and then dried off. Air temp was 45 degrees, so I bundled up and started to shiver. It was so bad my hand really shook, could not hold my warm drink.
I find I am more sensitive, or responsive, to air temps. We have an informal 100 degree cutoff, water + air temp, below which we go to the coffee shop instead. Most ppl in the casual group are not hard-core swimmers but do this one swim because we like to watch the sunrise from the water. And 4 minutes was probably a maximum today (air temp around 58). Squealing ist verboten.
The season has begun! :bliss:
Mine is still about 7 weeks away. (Can't seem to find good place to do so in Cincinnati area.) So I will live vicariously through you for now.:bliss:
Can you move north, and a little west? The Great Lakes make for fine OW swimming.
Where did you swim, and what were the water temperatures?
We swim in a place that is a gray area: approved by one city branch for swimming, not approved by another. So I must be a little reticent. A good site for the closest thing to year-round is www.openwaterchicago.com. Water temps in low 50s; nobody had a measuring implement.
Here in the Denver area we started our Open Water Season on May 2nd.
There were 14 people who showed up at the Chatfield Gravel Pond to swim.
6 had wetsuits and 8 swam in skins. Water temp was 53 degrees. I swam for about 4 minutes and then dried off. Air temp was 45 degrees, so I bundled up and started to shiver. It was so bad my hand really shook, could not hold my warm drink.
I find I am more sensitive, or responsive, to air temps. We have an informal 100 degree cutoff, water + air temp, below which we go to the coffee shop instead. Most ppl in the casual group are not hard-core swimmers but do this one swim because we like to watch the sunrise from the water. And 4 minutes was probably a maximum today (air temp around 58). Squealing ist verboten.
The season has begun! :bliss:
