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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Come on up for some cold lake swims in advance. That will also take off a bit of the pressure and mystique of B Shoulders.
Words like "tough" and "sissy" don't apply if there is no chance to acclimate even a little to swimming in colder, rougher water. You made the right choice to leave the water. I wouldn't second-guess, compare, or feel bad about the decision.
'K?
:)
agreed. Absolutely nothing to do with tough or sissy. I was just lucky to have been able to get in the lake a couple of times that week to get used to it.
Come on up for some cold lake swims in advance. That will also take off a bit of the pressure and mystique of B Shoulders.
Words like "tough" and "sissy" don't apply if there is no chance to acclimate even a little to swimming in colder, rougher water. You made the right choice to leave the water. I wouldn't second-guess, compare, or feel bad about the decision.
'K?
:)
agreed. Absolutely nothing to do with tough or sissy. I was just lucky to have been able to get in the lake a couple of times that week to get used to it.
