Swimming in the Charles and other swimming news
Operation “Swimming in the Charles” became real when this blogger teamed up with the Charles River Swimming Club and started the process of organizing a swim race in the Charles River for summer July 2006. Should be an interesting and challenging endeavour. If anybody has answers to questions like “is it possible to rent buoys or should we buy them” or “what’s the best way to have swimmers enter and exit the river?”, please do share!
In other swimming news, a group of nude swimmers had to abandon a charity swim in Loch Ness due to strong winds and wave action. I can assure you that there’s little chance we’ll have those problems in the Charles, and not only because the river doesn’t get that choppy.
Y’know, I’ve actually been swimming in Loch Ness. It was the middle of the summer and while the air temperature was fine the water was fuh-reezing! When I told people back in London about my dip the response was that I would never have children.