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
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On the pure open water swims not necessarily connected to races I loved adventure swimming on the North Shore of Oahu. Watching the sea life, following turtles, climbing up on out cropping and diving/jumping back in, is just priceless.
I've swam the La Jolla Roughwater swim six times. La Jolla is an awesome extended weekend get-away and yea and they have this big race :-) Plus I just like swimming there even when no racing is involved, it's beautiful and again abundant sea life to keep the swim interesting.
The http://www.horsetoothswim.com/ in Colorado, nothing like swimming a mile high right up against the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
Honarable mentions:
Aquatic Park, San Francisco - Just love getting in cold water swims here and then hanging out in the Sauna of one of swim clubs. I'm always a bit envious of the folks who live there and get to do it all the time. Speaking of the Bay, like the Alcatraz Challenge race, kinda short but I won in it in 09 and although they may get tired of me telling the story ;-) It's fun to say you swam from Alcatraz and won it as well.
Home training area Chatfield State Park, southwest of the Denver metropolitan area. Another lake tucked up against' the foothills, it's getting crowded with all the interest in OW these days but in that golden evening sun, swimming with your best swim pals, it's always nice.
On the pure open water swims not necessarily connected to races I loved adventure swimming on the North Shore of Oahu. Watching the sea life, following turtles, climbing up on out cropping and diving/jumping back in, is just priceless.
I've swam the La Jolla Roughwater swim six times. La Jolla is an awesome extended weekend get-away and yea and they have this big race :-) Plus I just like swimming there even when no racing is involved, it's beautiful and again abundant sea life to keep the swim interesting.
The http://www.horsetoothswim.com/ in Colorado, nothing like swimming a mile high right up against the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
Honarable mentions:
Aquatic Park, San Francisco - Just love getting in cold water swims here and then hanging out in the Sauna of one of swim clubs. I'm always a bit envious of the folks who live there and get to do it all the time. Speaking of the Bay, like the Alcatraz Challenge race, kinda short but I won in it in 09 and although they may get tired of me telling the story ;-) It's fun to say you swam from Alcatraz and won it as well.
Home training area Chatfield State Park, southwest of the Denver metropolitan area. Another lake tucked up against' the foothills, it's getting crowded with all the interest in OW these days but in that golden evening sun, swimming with your best swim pals, it's always nice.
