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Big Shoulders, 11 Sept. 2010, Chicago

ViveBene
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. :)
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    well i'll be swimming LRLH as well, and probably going to Brighton Beach the next day. there is a nice 5k loop. see www.cibbows.org this will be the 2011 USMS 5k national championship I'll be sad to miss Little Red Lighthouse, but definitely want to do at least one of the NY swims next year! I'm contemplating doing a relay for MIMS, if I can trick anyone into it. Of course, money is always a problem, so I'm working on some reverse-sponsorship deals, where I threaten to wear a particular brand of suit unless the manufacturer pays me not to. MiraclesuitRegistered is particularly interested. Big Shoulders is still giving me a laugh! I stopped for a while after the halfway point and had to give myself a pep talk. Not cold, not sick, just slow, so finish the race! Images of Chaos enduring more than 15 hours of worse stuff in the English Channel were inspirational :) The Ghost Barge from the Bermuda Triangle that parked itself on the 2nd leg of the course was a little disturbing. Annoying actually.
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  • Former Member
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    well i'll be swimming LRLH as well, and probably going to Brighton Beach the next day. there is a nice 5k loop. see www.cibbows.org this will be the 2011 USMS 5k national championship I'll be sad to miss Little Red Lighthouse, but definitely want to do at least one of the NY swims next year! I'm contemplating doing a relay for MIMS, if I can trick anyone into it. Of course, money is always a problem, so I'm working on some reverse-sponsorship deals, where I threaten to wear a particular brand of suit unless the manufacturer pays me not to. MiraclesuitRegistered is particularly interested. Big Shoulders is still giving me a laugh! I stopped for a while after the halfway point and had to give myself a pep talk. Not cold, not sick, just slow, so finish the race! Images of Chaos enduring more than 15 hours of worse stuff in the English Channel were inspirational :) The Ghost Barge from the Bermuda Triangle that parked itself on the 2nd leg of the course was a little disturbing. Annoying actually.
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