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.
:)
Much of that knowledge comes from actually doing it. If you don't get a chance, you don't understand what your physiological reactions mean when you are suddenly plunged into a novel situation.
And even experienced cold-water swimmers can get hypothermia.
(Your big chance is coming up, evmo! Record is 42 consecutive months' dip off the Point! Photo from the makeup New Year's plunge, Jan. 30.)
Much of that knowledge comes from actually doing it. If you don't get a chance, you don't understand what your physiological reactions mean when you are suddenly plunged into a novel situation.
And even experienced cold-water swimmers can get hypothermia.
(Your big chance is coming up, evmo! Record is 42 consecutive months' dip off the Point! Photo from the makeup New Year's plunge, Jan. 30.)
