3 loops, long*
lake nokomis open swim
80 degrees
humidity: 80%
*there are no set locations for the buoys, so each swim the distance is a little different. Sometimes shorter than usual, today longer. I usually compare by number of strokes. 3 loops last Thursday was 1, 700 strokes, 3 loops today was 2000 loops.
Hot! The few times I stopped mid-lake to adjust by nose plug or googles I was overheated. That doesn’t happen often when I’m in the water! The first loop was choppy with swells. Not rough, but active, and difficult to breathe on my right side. The choppiest part of the loop was the last segment back toward the big beach. Loops 2 and 3 were calm. I guess the wind died down. No sign of blue-green algae blooms.
10 Things
- a pale yellow something below me in the water — a leaf? a fish? a vine?
- blue sky with puffy white clouds
- sloshing sounds as water lapped over me
- a plane flying low and parallel to the water
- squeaks from my leaking nose plug
- spots of sparkling water in the distance
- sparkle friends moving fast
- below the surface, the water was a greenish-yellow
- rounding the buoy, noticing the angle of the rope as it disappeared into deeper, darker water
- swimming into a few vines — thin, not scratchy or slippery
I thought about doing 4 loops, but at the end of the third I could tell that my body was done. Hours later, writing this and feeling tired, I’m glad I listened and stopped.
Returned home and watched Tadej Pogacar win the tour and Wout Van Aert win the stage. Excellent.