your three favorite open water swims... and why?
by all means, feel free to include personal experiences, e.g. your english channel swim, but try to note three race events that we might register for in 2012.
my three to be elaborated on later are;
Donner Lake Swim, Truckee, CA
Highland Lakes Challenge, Austin, TX
Pennock Island Challenge, Ketchikan, AK
Honorable mentions;
Low Country Splash, Charleston, SC
San Francisco Swims
New York City Swims - NYCSwim & CIBBOWS
Parents
Former Member
The 1999 USMS Long Course Nationals were held in Minneapolis. Paul Windrath, the meet director, offered an open water swim on the last day of the meet. About 60 of us boarded a bus in the pool parking lot and rode about an hour to Stockholm, Wisconsin. We jumped into the Mississippi River and swam across the river to Lake City, Minnesota.
Here is a map:
maps.google.com/maps
& remember, the day after 2009 USMS Short Course Nationals in Clovis was the USMS One Mile Championship at Millerton Lake.
www.usms.org/.../1miresults.pdf
The 1999 USMS Long Course Nationals were held in Minneapolis. Paul Windrath, the meet director, offered an open water swim on the last day of the meet. About 60 of us boarded a bus in the pool parking lot and rode about an hour to Stockholm, Wisconsin. We jumped into the Mississippi River and swam across the river to Lake City, Minnesota.
Here is a map:
maps.google.com/maps
& remember, the day after 2009 USMS Short Course Nationals in Clovis was the USMS One Mile Championship at Millerton Lake.
www.usms.org/.../1miresults.pdf
