This year I plan on swimming 3-4 open water swims. Currently on the schedule is Sunday's Jim McDonnell 1-mile lake swim in Reston, VA. Next up after that is a 1500m swim in the UK, about a mile south of Heathrow Airport. I'll be taking one of my sons with me. The next one planned, but not yet approved (I need approval from the boss to take 4 days off of work, even though it's over a weekend), is a very interesting swim in Copenhagen. The swim is 2K and in a canal around the Danish Parliament! I really hope I get to go to that one. I will take the other son to that one.
Finally, if everything works out alright, I should be able to swim in the Big Shoulders 2.5K (dare I try the 5K?) in Chicago in September. But that's far enough away and so many things can come up between now and then.
That's this year. Long term goals include, no, not the English Channel, but I would love to swim the Donner Pass. That swim is 2.7 miles at 5933ft in water 65-68 degrees. Yikes!
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