Cinco Locos

Wow! The 36th straight day without a wetsuit! There may not be too many more, though. Our little corner of the lake is cooling down.

Yesterday evening Cap'n and Larry and me swam for about half a hour in moderate chop. It was cooler than the previous days, but still comfortable once we got going.

This morning it was a couple degrees cooler yet. Cap'n, me, James, Jessica, and Dom knew as soon as we dipped our toes that it was going to be one tough swim. I'm thinking that if any one of us had been there alone, we'd have all backed down. But of course no one was going to be the first to wimp out, so off went five brave (or crazy) swimmers, none of us in wetsuits.

Once past the shock of the initial plunge, we actually were OK. I would not say it was comfortable, but it was definitely bearable. We got to the garage and decided to keep going a while. Since most of us are tapering for either Ironman or Big Shoulders we didn't go all the way to the rockpile (good excuse, hey?). We swam a total of 25 minutes. I have to congratulate everyone for hanging in there, we are one tough group of dudes!

I checked the web, and it appears the water in Chicago is still very warm, so hopefully it will stay that way until Saturday's Big Shoulders swim.

Clearly the lake swim season won't last much longer, but we'll keep going as long as we can, even if we have to haul out the wetsuits again (ugh!). But you never know, it could warm up again, most of the lake surface water is still warm and the right wind could blow it our way.

Tonight (tentatively - we'll see what the weather is) 4:30 PM Klode
Tomorrow, Thursday definetly 6:30AM Klode