Next swims: Mon - Fri 6am, 6pm, Sat & Sun noon (check blog for occasional other scheduled swims).
Conditions: recent water conditions and water temps at Klode have been early-season excellent (see below blog entries and comments).
Today is Johnny Weissmuller's Birthday. Born in 1904, he spent his formative years in Chicago, where he learned to swim in Lake Michigan. He went on to win swimming races throughout the Midwest (including an AAU national championship held in the Milwaukee River in 1922), and to become a two-time Olympian (Paris 1924, Amsterdam 1928), and a five-time Olympic Gold Medal winner (swimming and water polo). He then headed to Hollywood, and created the definitive Twentieth Century movie portrayal of Tarzan. Weissmuller swims in all his Tarzan movies, most noteably, in the mostly-nude water ballet in the 1934 Tarzan and His Mate, with fellow-Olympic-gold-medal-winner Josephine McKim ("standing in" underwater for the actress Maureen O'Sullivan). Click on this link, to watch Tarzan & Jane's proto-synchronized swim routine.
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