August 30, Ohio St

Today Jody's daughter Jill joined us. With some waves and even a chance of storm predicted we decided on Ohio St. There was just some gentle rolling chop. Getting in it felt cold but actually it was 74.5 and extremely comfortable once we got started. The buoy's marking the swim area have changed to larger yellow ones. But there are new old style buoys marking off an area near Lake street. When we got to the 1/2 mile dark red buoy near the curve we decided to check out the new area. But we didn't get far, Jody decided the sky was looking menacing so we turned around. In fact what she saw was fog around the 50 floor level of the loop buildings. So alternately we had sun, then fog for the whole swim changing every few minutes. It would have been almost a perfect swim but the high humidity made it hard for me to keep my goggles clear and it was a pain to continually stop and clear them.

Back in the shallow water by the beach I ran into my old friend Charlie who used to be a morning regular at Oakton pool. So we had to catch up a bit. He said I looked well but I have about 3 health/injury issues now and had been thinking how being in the lake nullified all of them. So perhaps being chest deep in water with a cap and goggles on is the best place to meet old friends.