Today I met a couple friends at the beach for a swim. It's been really warm out recently, and so the water is warmer than last year, it's still 56 in the lake. A couple of us decided that we were going to try for a longer swim to really start acclimating for the colder weather, and maybe another slush mile. We started by heading to the point to see how it goes. Because the last time I went swimming for 30 minutes I got a little claw hand and numbness, I wore gloves, which made such a difference!
It was really cold to put my face in the water, but by the time I got to the point I was completely fine, and so was my friend. We decided to do a little loop swim that we like, that takes us to the other side of the lake and then back to the beach. My goggles were totally fogged up, so I took a little detour because I couldn't tell where I was at all. I finally stopped and was pretty far off track, so I had to do some turning. We got back to the beach in a little less than 30 minutes, and were like, "think you could do a mile?" and we both thought we could, so we did. The triangle is about .6 mile - we decided to swim back and forth at the beach for the rest of if because we didn't want to get too far away and then get cold. In total it wound up being about 45 minutes, with a few short stops. I'm suspicious that it wasn't a full mile, but it was pretty close.
After, we put our feet in hot water and drank tea, and had a little bit of an after drop, but not too much. It felt really good! I'm excited to try another slush mile soon.
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