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
tvbartman@hotmail.com
There are Open Water swims in the Ohio LMSC that are part of the Fat Rabbit Racing series that takes place in Columbus Ohio. There are 2 to 3 open water events that they sponsor in June and July.
There are a few of the Anderson Barracuda Masters and Mercy Healthplex Masters that get together during the summer and do some open water swims at East Fork Lake. As stated in one of the previous posts, 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.
There is a age group open water that has been hosted at East Fork Lake over the past 3 years. So, it would not be hard to solicit the park staff and get a person to head up a open water event for Masters.
Please review the Ohio LMSC website under schedule of events.
Thank you.
There are Open Water swims in the Ohio LMSC that are part of the Fat Rabbit Racing series that takes place in Columbus Ohio. There are 2 to 3 open water events that they sponsor in June and July.
There are a few of the Anderson Barracuda Masters and Mercy Healthplex Masters that get together during the summer and do some open water swims at East Fork Lake. As stated in one of the previous posts, 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.
There is a age group open water that has been hosted at East Fork Lake over the past 3 years. So, it would not be hard to solicit the park staff and get a person to head up a open water event for Masters.
Please review the Ohio LMSC website under schedule of events.
Thank you.
