According to the gods of weather, there is a high likelihood that on Monday morning, the water temperature will be below 60 degrees at Lucky’s Lake Swim (current water temp is 61.4 and dropping fast). What does that mean to the normal human being? Well, nothing.
However, for cold water swimmers that have been released from the insane asylum for good behavior, this is the opportunity to become part of our sub 60 degree club. Now please be aware that to be inducted into the club the swim must be done without a wetsuit. If you do it with a wetsuit, you can join our Wimpo Club. For those that do swim without a wetsuit, not only do you get bragging rights for the rest of your life, but you also get a very cool patch which you can see below. And that clearly makes it all worthwhile, wouldn’t you think?
Local Fox 35 News will be out again filming. Apparently they have a fascination with people who have mental health problems, who appear normal on the outside, but have a hidden misery complex that must be fed continuously. Swimming in 50-some degree water temperatures is diagnostic for this complex.
Lucky will be swimming in a wetsuit because he is already a sub 60 club member, however, this does not restrict you from verbally taunting and abusing him.
Hooray! The cold water swimming idiots now have their own patch (technically it’s not a cloth patch, it’s a rubberized patch made to survive sub zero temperatures). The rules to get the patch are simple, you must swim an entire lake crossing without a wet suit in 59.9 degree water or lower (This happens only 2 or 3 days a year, some years it doesn’t get below 60 degrees.) Yes, that is water temperature not air temperature.
