First swim in Tempe Town Lake

Today was the first chance to swim in the "lake" here...it's kind of a very long and wide canal. The water is very dark, and you can't see anything...but, at least it's not salt water. You can only swim in it during the scheduled swim times...so I went down this morning for the 7 am opening swim. It was pretty neat, and I saw Heather Fuhr down there going for a run. It was pretty chilly this morning, but the water seemed about the perfect temperature. I swam down for about 20 minutes, and then turned around...into the wind, which made it kind of choppy coming back.

Once done, I grabbed my camera to take some pictures from the water. I floated around and took some shots...while I was right next to a big dead catfish. I met up with Kevin Neal as he was exiting the water, and then he took me for a 40-45 minute run on the run course. The landscape was pretty cool, with different small hills made of rock dotting the area...I'll try to get some shots of these.


Descending the stairs which will be used for the water exit on race day...


Into the abyss...


One of the 15-20 kayak's and boats out to make sure we didn't drown on the morning swim...


...no, you're not one yet Sween...


Creature from the black lagoon...


...nope, just Kevin Neal...


I'll "see" you later. -Sween-