'This is heaven.' Unlike many athletic endeavors, open water swimming is a pastime embraced by many in their 50s and up, way up. It favors the hardy, the persistent, and the well-insulated. And it’s nothing like pool swimming.
Roberta Rubin, 85, left, and Dorothy Harza, 93, wade in the water after a late-autumn swim in Lake Michigan on Nov. 10, 2022, in Evanston, Ill. Harza swims nearly daily in Lake Michigan from May to November. Roberta Rubin, 85, left, and Dorothy Harza, 93, wade in the water after a late-autumn swim in Lake Michigan on Nov. 10, 2022, in Evanston, Ill. Harza swims nearly daily in Lake Michigan from May to November.
“A lot of us look longingly at the water all year long, but it’s still a little cold for me now,” says Dorothy Harza, 93, of Evanston, Illinois, who swims nearly daily in Lake Michigan from May to November. “It makes my body feel so good!” she exclaims. “Like most people my age, I have various aches and pains that one just lives with at my point of life. Swimming makes me feel so much better.”
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