Swim Report – July 16, 2016 – High Summer

After a slight dip in the water temperature earlier in the week, the lake came in at an almost perfect 68F on Saturday morning. And the later swim start time of 5:30am brought more new faces out to L1!

Now that the days are getting shorter, I no longer have to settle for bad coffee since the cool Starbucks on Clark Street is open at 5:00am. When I mentioned this to the workers, they told me that the other Starbucks on Wells was open 24 hours. But we Tauruses are loyal, so I shan’t be switching horses in mid stream any time soon!

I was surprised at the higher turnout at L1. We had a few new swimmers along with some veteran Lake Monsters who have not been out for a while. My guess is that the good weather sparked this uptick in attendance as the 72F air temperature and light humidity made it a perfect morning to be outside – whether one was swimming or not!

As with last week, I started out planning on only doing 1/8 mile or so. But the lake conditions were close to ideal, so I ended up doing about 1/2 mile total. And as the morning went on, several other swimmers began congregating at the lakefront around L1.

Perhaps the word is finally out that we have the best swim spot on the planet?

Sunrise

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The view at water

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Quentin, Lake Monster 407

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Beverly, Lake Monster 408

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Everybody in the pool!

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One Reply to “Swim Report – July 16, 2016 – High Summer”

  1. well well well…. due to the lake only hanging in the 65 to 73 degree range – I do not think it will warm up to 104 degrees this year to allow everyone to swim in only swim suits
    your weekend warriors should look into buying Rip Curl H-Bomb wet suits to help keep them warm ! they have heaters built in and only cost $900 to $1200 dollars.

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