In one week, Dave Delucchi would be swimming the Donner Lake Half Ironman Triathlon. Rick Ferrell and I would be at Donner as well,doing the Olympic distance triathlon. Perfect time to get some cold, open water swim training done. We decided to meet with the informal Sunday morning group which swims 'round the Santa Cruz wharf at 8:30am - a 1 mile distance.
A visage from the past! In my old pre-surgery days ~during the 00's, swimming was all I could do (followed by one-legged mtn biking up to Sand Pt in Nicene Marks), and I did a Sunday morning 1-mile ocean swim at Rio Del Mar almost every week right through the winter, with Bruckner Chase and an assortment of rugged salty characters who shun wetsuits . |