I was just curious about everyone's "first time". When/where did you take that first plunge into open water??
(I did a search to see if a thread like this had been done and came up empty.)
Marjorie,
I greatly enjoyed your observation, especially in light that mankind has been swimming in the open water for millennium while pool swimming is relatively a recent luxury.
For example, I enjoyed reading Peter Daland and Phil Whitten's first volume on swimming that included detailed explanations of swimming in the first four Olympics - where everthing was held in open water venues.
So while the swimming community thinks of open water as something "new", history tells us otherwise.
Great observation. Thank you very much.
Marjorie,
I greatly enjoyed your observation, especially in light that mankind has been swimming in the open water for millennium while pool swimming is relatively a recent luxury.
For example, I enjoyed reading Peter Daland and Phil Whitten's first volume on swimming that included detailed explanations of swimming in the first four Olympics - where everthing was held in open water venues.
So while the swimming community thinks of open water as something "new", history tells us otherwise.
Great observation. Thank you very much.
