Good to know I can swim without a wetsuit
Another hot day today in Boston. I was watching the weather forecast on the morning news the other day and they said that Boston has already had 14 days about 90 degrees this summer compared to to only 4 such days a year prior.
Due to the weather, I thought it would be a good day to hit Walden Pond in the late afternoon. Usually I go in the mornings. The biggest difference, it’s a lot hotter in the afternoon than it is in the morning. How hot, this afternoon it was 92 degrees hot!
Usually I would swim in my wetsuit… why? I have a lot of reasons, but my best one is that I’m really not a great swimmer. The wetsuit helps me float, swim faster and a result helps my confidence.
But, with as hot as it was, wearing a wetsuit would have been ridiculous. So in the water I swam what I believe to be a total of 1 mile, 3 loops of 0.33 miles each. Weird thing is, I swan faster after doing each loop. Maybe I should swim without my wetsuit more often…