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
has anyone lurking here done any OW in Australia? it's ridiculous that I didn't take up swimming as sport until moving here and haven't done a single event back home! There seem to be quite a lot going on and my nephews swim OW but of course i only seem to get there in summer (Oz winter) so end up doing DIY events
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:
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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.
neat! 60 is quite a troop. did everyone make it (at those temperatures)?
here is a maplink for your swim that makes it easy to measure distances.
Menu -> Make a map
click on map to trace out a route
distance is displayed in the lower right
www.mappingsupport.com/.../gmap4.php
Would it be OK to post my three most hated open water swims??
can't wait to read about them! of course the most hated can also be the best :) unless one is talking about endless laps at La Tuque :)
The La Tuque Quebec race in Lac St Louis. I would go to look at the lake and would start barfing.
Next was Narraganset to Blocke Island the - I called it "Was I Shark Bait Race".
Cross Lake Ontario race 32 miles - Water temp started at 72 degrees no finishers temperature dropped to 38 degrees 2 miles from the finish.
can't wait to read about them! of course the most hated can also be the best :) unless one is talking about endless laps at La Tuque :)
The La Tuque Quebec race in Lac St Louis. I would go to look at the lake and would start barfing.
i was not a swimmer when I lived in Quebec :(, or maybe thats :). it took quite a bit of, errrrh, gumption to get in the Serpentine, but even being a foreigner (topside microbes) and spending a couple hours in it total, I didn't suffer in anyway. Plus the Serps is an awesome venue. Definitely worth it.
Next was Narraganset to Blocke Island the - I called it "Was I Shark Bait Race".
before swimming, i was into scuba diving (but still 21st century). we'd go to extremes to _see_ sharks. what year was your RI swim and do you think that the reportedly huge decline in sharks over the intervening years would change that by now?
Cross Lake Ontario race 32 miles - Water temp started at 72 degrees no finishers temperature dropped to 38 degrees 2 miles from the finish.
after 30 miles, that must of stung in more ways than one! it's supposedly one of the most difficult swims for that reason. there is a book titled Marilyn Bell
en.wikipedia.org/.../Marilyn_Bell
.
you've probably met her?
