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.)
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my first one was this year in crystal Lake IL 1mile, it was a small one open for the public. While swimming it I thought why would anyone want to do this for fun. Thought for sure I was dead last, because I could not swim free style the whole way. Then I got out of the water and there was a whole bunch more people behind me. So I decided to do more and join masters since the I did 2 more.Now am training to do a 10k.I had no formal training as a kid. Never would have thought in a million years that I would be doing this. But now it will always be a part of my life.
my first one was this year in crystal Lake IL 1mile, it was a small one open for the public. While swimming it I thought why would anyone want to do this for fun. Thought for sure I was dead last, because I could not swim free style the whole way. Then I got out of the water and there was a whole bunch more people behind me. So I decided to do more and join masters since the I did 2 more.Now am training to do a 10k.I had no formal training as a kid. Never would have thought in a million years that I would be doing this. But now it will always be a part of my life.
