Lake Michigan Swim Training (Page 3)

It was colder than the dickens the past few days. I'm going today for 1:20 and tomorrow for 2 hours so I really hope it's warmed up. It's not so bad once you get moving but I had my lesson in there on Tuesday evening and did a lot of standing and listening between drills. Talk about shrinkage!

The water felt much better today - I'd say back to last week's temps, or close to it. I was in the water for close to an hour without a wetsuit and was comfortable.

Water was perfect today.  I was in a long sleeve wetsuit and I wasn't cold at all.  There was a pretty good current pulling me out from shore.  I was almost 5 minutes slower coming back in. 

Just got home from first swim in the lake this year and are you kidding me. Chicago beach forecast said temp was 70. When I hit the water I knew that wasn't right. I had a full wetsuit on so it wasn't to bad but my face was numb the first 200 yrds. I wanted to go a mile but only made it 3/4 mile. I just couldn't get my breathing down. I guessed the temp to be around 65 and on my trip home Tom Sklilling was on the radio and said 63. I knew it was cold. Man I hope this warms up before the Chicago Tri. Even with a wetsuit it's no fun.

It was cold today... but not as freekin' cold as last week. The problem with today is there were alternating pockets of warm/cold which I find more shocking to my body then a steady temp. Plus there were all these little green algae balls today. Ew.