Ohio St, July 27

Jody and I swam Ohio St today but something was not right. According to my thermometer watch the temperature varied between 65 and 68 degrees depending on the location which should be close to ideal. The sky was mostly sunny and the water was mostly flat with just a bit of chop. So on paper this should have been a great swim. But both Jody and I were a little uneasy. The water felt a lot colder than it actually was, when we made our first check at Chicago Ave I was still cold, even with, or perhaps because of, my thermal cap. And both of us were a bit woozy as if it were quite wavy. I considered turning back but since we had made the effort to get here that would have been disappointing. By the time we turned around at the curve I was finally warm enough and we both felt a little better.

The best we can up with was that the trouble was bad vibes from the Trump tower. From the far part of the course swimming back the sun reflecting from the tower made it look like a giant icicle. Since we couldn't see the tower on the outbound part of our swim we didn't realize that this icicle was what was making us cold. But clearly the water was spooked. Our potential great swim was trumped by the Donald.