5 weeks to go to the 20th Annual Chicago Masters' Big Shoulders Open Water 2.5k and 5k swim.
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway of Swimming! But without the flags!
www.bigshoulders.org
This swim is also part of the USMS H2Open Series and the Great Lakes GLOWS series, all compelling reasons to attend the church of the 5k butterfly.
For those unfamiliar with the venue, swimming can be done at Ohio Street Beach any day (short of bacterial counts high enough to close the beach), so a trial swim along the seawall in the days preceding the meet is easily done.
Lake Michigan temp has been much warmer this summer. We don't need woollen leggings and ski caps after a 6 a.m. swim.
:)
thanks for the report. be sure to say hello at little red. i'll be helping out with check in before the swim.
chaos, I look forward to meeting you - maybe even swimming with you one of these days!
I was out West during Big Shoulders - had a nice swim in Flathead Lake, ID
I heard from the Point warriors that you had gone glacial. Can't wait to hear about it.
I hit a dark patch coming back in on lap 1. I puked up Lake, Lara Bar, and Gatorade, and gave up on sighting other than *** stroke during the first leg of lap 2, and things started to look up -- for me it became a matter of surviving to the finish.
I doubt there was a single person out there who didn't have a dark patch or three. Anyone who finished that race has a lot to be proud of. Congrats on coming back from the puking episode - that's some excellent HTFU'ing :applaud:
thanks for the report. be sure to say hello at little red. i'll be helping out with check in before the swim.
chaos, I look forward to meeting you - maybe even swimming with you one of these days!
I was out West during Big Shoulders - had a nice swim in Flathead Lake, ID
I heard from the Point warriors that you had gone glacial. Can't wait to hear about it.
I hit a dark patch coming back in on lap 1. I puked up Lake, Lara Bar, and Gatorade, and gave up on sighting other than *** stroke during the first leg of lap 2, and things started to look up -- for me it became a matter of surviving to the finish.
I doubt there was a single person out there who didn't have a dark patch or three. Anyone who finished that race has a lot to be proud of. Congrats on coming back from the puking episode - that's some excellent HTFU'ing :applaud:
