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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Hey, new action on the thread!
I went to Harsha Lake (East Fork State Park) back in October. It was as billed ... there's an area buoy-ed off along the shore for about 400m and maybe running out 50m or so from the shore. So, you could swim away from the shore (and the families that will be there when the weather is nice) to the end buoy, and run along the far perimiter and get in a 400m open swim that way. I tested out my wetsuit, so you could even go when the weather isn't too bad. Definitely be safe though (spotter on the shore or something like that).
Swimming in the Ohio? Yuck. There's a triathlon in Cincinnati now, the first year was 2008. The swim is in the Ohio, but the first year they had to cancel it and make it a duathlon because of the pollution level in the river. I don't know what happened this year. I think I'll avoid it.
Maybe as spring approaches I'll look into things we can do. I'll come back and post if I am up to something.
Tom
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Former Member
Hey, new action on the thread!
I went to Harsha Lake (East Fork State Park) back in October. It was as billed ... there's an area buoy-ed off along the shore for about 400m and maybe running out 50m or so from the shore. So, you could swim away from the shore (and the families that will be there when the weather is nice) to the end buoy, and run along the far perimiter and get in a 400m open swim that way. I tested out my wetsuit, so you could even go when the weather isn't too bad. Definitely be safe though (spotter on the shore or something like that).
Swimming in the Ohio? Yuck. There's a triathlon in Cincinnati now, the first year was 2008. The swim is in the Ohio, but the first year they had to cancel it and make it a duathlon because of the pollution level in the river. I don't know what happened this year. I think I'll avoid it.
Maybe as spring approaches I'll look into things we can do. I'll come back and post if I am up to something.
Tom
