They'll have a Sprint and a Super Sprint. The Super Sprint also has a "Swim What You Bring Division", where "you can swim with what ever you want (noodles, fins, mask, snorkels, gloves...). Sorry, no boats, hydrofoils, or rafts". Of course, such deviants are not eligible for age group or overall awards, but they will still get a finisher medal.
They're also saying they'll cancel the swim and change the event to a duathlon if the water is colder than 55 degrees
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Hoping to see some of you there. Here's the link to their site
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See this article from 4/30/19 in the Journal Sentinel re Lake Michigan Swimming: Rip Currents Killed 7 in 2003, Scientists Solve Lake Michigan Mystery.
And the following letter-to-the-editor published in today's Journal Sentinel:
Safe Swimming in Lake Michigan
Once again, a Journal Sentinel article suggests that that Lake Michigan swimming is somehow highly dangerous (“Rip currents killed 7 in 2003,” April 30).
Truth is, the number of people who drown in the lake each year is an infinitesimally small number compared to the number of people who die from other causes. In the U.S. each year, lack of of physical activity causes 300,000 deaths and car crashes 1,250,000 deaths. In short, our couches, our TV remotes and our cars are far more deadly than Lake Michigan.
If everyone followed the article's advice to stay out of the lake for a half day after a storm, everyone would miss some of the greatest swimming and surfing the lake has to offer.
Better advice would be something like the following: Lake Michigan swimming carries with it some risks, but there are several things you can do to reduce the risk. Learn to swim. When you swim, swim with others. Never swim after drinking alcohol. Respect the power of the Lake; if conditions increase the risk of rip currents, take simple steps to increase your buoyancy, such as by swimming with a lifejacket or swim buoy on a tether (cost, less than $30), or a wetsuit (cost, less than $100). Any of those devices can greatly increase one’s chances of survival and rescue, and wetsuits in particular increase the amount of time one can survive in cool water.
Lake Michigan offers some of the best open water swimming in the world. It is time the media starts recognizing that and stops portraying swimming in the lake as some unusually dangerous or risky behavior.
Sandie Pendleton, Shorewood
Member, Lake Michigan Swimmers
Sounds super fun, go Mr. Bubble! I did a 5k "Run for Water" & was quite delighted with myself.
Unfortunately, they've just declared that the race will be a duathlon because the water is too cold! They tested it last weekend and it was 51°. I deferred my registration till next year.
Anyone swimming this weekend?
I'd like to. Are you and Hank planning to sometime?
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