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
I actually was talking to my husband about this recently, how I'd like to do an open-water swim in each state. Here's my list so far:
Open-water races:
Florida (Swim Around Key West relay, Fort Myers USMS National Champ 5K, Swim Miami, Hurricane Man)
South Carolina (completed earlier this month in the Lowcountry Splash!)
Maryland (Great Chesapeake Bay Swim 2x)
New York (so many! - several NYC Swim events, plus a couple of CIBBOWS events)
Illinois (Big Shoulders Swim)
Connecticut (Greenwich 2-mile swim)
Other swims:
New Jersey (two sprint triathlons)
Rhode Island (a 2-mile swim with a group in Newport, but not a race)
I was hoping to add Maine and/or California to the list this year, but I'm not sure that's going to happen now.
I actually was talking to my husband about this recently, how I'd like to do an open-water swim in each state. Here's my list so far:
Open-water races:
Florida (Swim Around Key West relay, Fort Myers USMS National Champ 5K, Swim Miami, Hurricane Man)
South Carolina (completed earlier this month in the Lowcountry Splash!)
Maryland (Great Chesapeake Bay Swim 2x)
New York (so many! - several NYC Swim events, plus a couple of CIBBOWS events)
Illinois (Big Shoulders Swim)
Connecticut (Greenwich 2-mile swim)
Other swims:
New Jersey (two sprint triathlons)
Rhode Island (a 2-mile swim with a group in Newport, but not a race)
I was hoping to add Maine and/or California to the list this year, but I'm not sure that's going to happen now.
