Catch a wave...Or the swimming thread

[alpinerabbit]

ummm the water is sort of bottle green... in nice weather, yeah...

[kelownagirl]

I'm thinking about going down to the lake to try my wetsuit. The air temp is 30C (90F). Think it's too hot to get all duded up?

[HillSlugger]

I'm thinking about going down to the lake to try my wetsuit. The air temp is 30C (90F). Think it's too hot to get all duded up?

Just try to get into the water as soon as possible! What's the water temperature?

[kelownagirl]

I did it - I did it! I dont' know what the water temp was but I was plenty comfortable. It was windy so there were some pretty decent waves at times so I just went out about chest deep and swam parallel to the shore. I got panicky a few times and kept inhaling water when I was trying to swim but overall it was pretty successful for my first time out. I am SO glad to have THAT monkey off my back. I still need to try swimming on a day when the water is calm and I need to swim out over my head next.

Here are a few pics hubby took. A friend added Ogopogo in the the last one.

[jesvetmed]

Way to go KG! It only gets easier from here on out! Unless that thing chasing you catches up

[alpinerabbit]

That sea monster is loverly.....

I swam another 2k group swim in the lake today, felt better and stronger than my first 3 wks ago - I think I went to the pool... 3 times since and 2k each time. Actually I did swim alone in the end but the others were "somewhere" which makes you feel safe. There were no boats except the big passenger one. The swim is scheduled so we don't meet it closely.

The lake is about 19-20°C right now (was warmer last week but they must have poured a bucket of ice cubes into it). Unless the weather is really bad these next 2 days I'll ditch the wetsuit for my sprint - will shave 20-30sec off my transition.

oh did I mention I did a reverse triathlon for this. It starts at 18:15 sharp and they don't wait.

17:15 - I'm in my office and notice I forgot my contacts at home. Run out (loads of cursing) to the bus stop. Bus comes at 17:20. 17:31, catch the train. 17:39, train enters station. Full run in slipper sandals to my house (it IS only about 300 meters) 17:42, I'm at my house, run inside, stuff lenses in my pocket, down to basement, get my bike, out by 17:45. Dodged every red light I could for the, say, 3K in traffic, 18:00 come to a screeching halt in front of the place, insert lenses, don bathing suit and wetsuit - pant....


EGADS: update as of this morning the local newspaper posts they are pulling more and more catfish out of the upper lake (that's where I swim) - giant, humongous catfish, up to 80 kilos.
they do usually keep to the bottom, but you never know. In lake constance, they caught one that actually bit dogs and swimmers.
they wrote they will eat ducklings....

[alpinerabbit]

*bump*
looks like everyone is settled into their swimming routine for the season????

I'm still chipping away at my 3 2K sessions per week. OW swim again today. We had some wind and the boat passed by again - I seriouslythought I wasn't moving anymore on the last 500 or so.
Also I veered way away from the shore and even trying to swim towards my left, I seemed not to get any closer to the shore.

Felt strong but the above weirdnesss.... was, well, weird.

Explanation?




i also had weird thoughts. I know people commit suicide in the lake, so there must be a couple down there. I also thought if there were "burials at sea", so I might be swimming through dispersed ashes. eeks. morbid. A bird flew overhead and it seemed huge, maybe a vulture - LOL. Bird droppings came to mind as well....