While I live in Florida I am not close enough (within a 2 hour drive) to meet up with a group for open water swimming practice. I occasionally go out to Vero Beach and talk to the guards and then go swim up and down the beach in range of the towers, for the most part, but recent aquatic life issues (sharks) have made me a little skittish of long swims out in that direction by myself.
I am trying to compensate with extremely long pool workouts, in a variety of water temps and pools. In my last OW swim I did reasonably well (Swim Miami Beach) and hope to keep improving.
Any thoughts for the solo swimmer?
