Saturday, May 21, 2016

2016 Swim Season Officially Open

Next Swim:  Sunday May 22nd Noon

Be sure to bring to bring money to buy raffle tickets from me.  It's for the Friends of Estabrook Park.  Grand prizes are a Fyxation adult custom bike and a Rainbow Jersey Trek youth Farley 24 fat tire bike.  And many other cool prizes.  Ticket are $5 or 3 for $10.  Also, mark your calendar for Sunday June 12th Estabrook Park 100th anniversary celebration at the beer garden.  Besides the raffle there will be fun games music cake and free beer (with an Estabrook park mug, bring your own from previous years or purchase one for $10, or win one in the raffle)!  Noon to three.

We are still looking for the first skin swim of the season.  Who will step up (or dive in, as it were)?

Season Opening Swim: Saturday May 21st 11AM
Water Temp: 53
Waves:  almost calm
Water Clarity: Good
Wetsuit Skin: 6/0
Crew:  Showgirl, Panini, Itch, Kahuna, Gumdrop, Patriarch
Shots of Killepitsch: 6
Shots of some obnoxious green fluid that Itch brought:  5

A near perfect day for our first plunge of the year.  Sunny and warm.  It sure was great to be back in the water. Here are before and after pictures from today's swim.



For posterities sake, here are the final counts from 2015:

Swim Days: 116
Individual Swims: 1028 (577 suit, 451 skin)
Longest streak: 100 days
Shots of Killepitsch: 424

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