July 31, Ohio Street

On July 21 Jody and I were in Evanston for a routine swim, nothing to report

Then Jody blew me off the next Saturday, July 28 so to make up she agreed to an unusual weekday Lake swim. There was an unexpected thunderstorm around 4AM but it quickly departed and the sun was out when we left my house about 6AM. We drove to Wilson, near the dog park, and rode our bikes down to Ohio Street. The early morning crowd was out so lots of traffic on the lakefront path. There was almost a disaster as I turned off to the Ohio St. bike racks and a couple of fast guys chose that point to pass me on the left. The water was fairly flat, with a few boat wakes breaking up the monotony the water average a hot 79 degrees and a bright, somewhat annoying, sun. Even after our bike ride we felt we needed more at the end buoy so we continued on to Oak St.

After our swim we rode to our usual Starbucks on Ontario St and had some leisurely coffee. By the time we were on our way again it was cloudy again and a brisk northeast wind had developed. As we rode along our swim route we noticed a great deal of chop and some waves where a half hour earlier we had calm water. We had our most rigorous exercise of the day riding back to Wilson.

We had estimated returning home at 9 but with our extra swim and dallying over coffee we got home at 10:30.