While driving back to the hotel after the Chesapeake Bay Swim this past Sunday, we started talking about the different states in which we'd done open water swims. The criteria was that it had to be an organized event (not a workout and not just hopping in a lake). Oh, and it had to be a swim event; not a triathlon. I was allowed to count both Minnesota and Wisconsin because I did a swim where we started in Wisconsin and finished in Minnesota.
Here is how many states are on my list. How many are on yours? This may be a good goal - to try to do an organized, open water event in every state!
Arkansas
Florida
Illinois
Kansas
Maryland
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
Texas
Wisconsin
...and one territory: Puerto Rico
some states are / will be very hard to come by and I've searched Olympic triathlons to meet a 1-mile event minimum. I think I will add a separate category of 'rogue' swims to have some fun in a state-by-state effort, i.e. not events but an 'unsanctioned,' and sometimes illegal, swim. I'll make a second post soon... work - work - work. I live vicariously too through the likes of chaos, franco, miketyson AND many, many others. - Jayhawk - i need a kansas swim - I have done some searching to no avail.
some states are / will be very hard to come by and I've searched Olympic triathlons to meet a 1-mile event minimum. I think I will add a separate category of 'rogue' swims to have some fun in a state-by-state effort, i.e. not events but an 'unsanctioned,' and sometimes illegal, swim. I'll make a second post soon... work - work - work. I live vicariously too through the likes of chaos, franco, miketyson AND many, many others. - Jayhawk - i need a kansas swim - I have done some searching to no avail.
