Does anyone have suggestions about how to find places to train in open water? I live in Cincinnati, and a number of our parks have lakes, but the parks administration told me that swimming is strictly prohibited in all their lakes. Is there a resource out there? A strategy for finding a place?
Tom Bartman
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I called around a little bit and may have a bite - Lake Harsha / East Fork State Park in Batavia? I've been to rowing competitions there. I spoke with a woman this morning who said the park is open dawn to dusk, and there is a swimming area which reaches a certain distance out from the beach, which is a little curved but 400 m long. (google map it). You can't go out past the buoys, but she's not sure if they've been taken in for winter. I'm going to head there Saturday morning and check it out, with a plan of swimming parallel to the beach once I get out 30-40 meters.
Water temp on 9/21 was 74F. Based on historical, it should be between 54-64 now. I have a new sleeveless wetsuit, so I'm hoping it's closer to 64 so my arms don't turn blue (but the 45F weather this week does not bode well for that).
I agree that we should try to organize people to push for a place to open swim. Maybe we'll organize and do something over the winter before next spring.
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I called around a little bit and may have a bite - Lake Harsha / East Fork State Park in Batavia? I've been to rowing competitions there. I spoke with a woman this morning who said the park is open dawn to dusk, and there is a swimming area which reaches a certain distance out from the beach, which is a little curved but 400 m long. (google map it). You can't go out past the buoys, but she's not sure if they've been taken in for winter. I'm going to head there Saturday morning and check it out, with a plan of swimming parallel to the beach once I get out 30-40 meters.
Water temp on 9/21 was 74F. Based on historical, it should be between 54-64 now. I have a new sleeveless wetsuit, so I'm hoping it's closer to 64 so my arms don't turn blue (but the 45F weather this week does not bode well for that).
I agree that we should try to organize people to push for a place to open swim. Maybe we'll organize and do something over the winter before next spring.
