Sun, Sep 13
La Jolla Rough Water Swim
Cold arrives faster than the morning promised — arms crossed at the shoreline, cap on, watching the swell, everyone standing there exactly as nervous as everyone else. Then the horn, and the whole beach goes into the Pacific at once. This has run continuously since 1916, which makes it the oldest open water race in the country, older than most of the neighborhoods above it. The distances run from the Gatorman down to the shorter course, and the ones who have done it before will tell you the hard part is never the mileage. It is the first minutes, when the cold takes your breath and the bottom drops away and there is nothing under you but green. Spectators pack the bluff from dawn, and watching a thousand people enter the water together is not something you put down afterward. La Jolla Cove, registration through ljroughwater.com. Send it to the friend who keeps saying they want to try open water and has never picked a date.
Cold arrives faster than the morning promised — arms crossed at the shoreline, cap on, watching the swell, everyone standing there exactly as nervous as everyone else. Then the horn, and the whole beach goes into the Pacific at once. This has run continuously since 1916, which makes it the oldest open water race in the country, older than most of the neighborhoods above it. The distances run from the Gatorman down to the shorter course, and the ones who have done it before will tell you the hard part is never the mileage. It is the first minutes, when the cold takes your breath and the bottom drops away and there is nothing under you but green. Spectators pack the bluff from dawn, and watching a thousand people enter the water together is not something you put down afterward. La Jolla Cove, registration through ljroughwater.com. Send it to the friend who keeps saying they want to try open water and has never picked a date.
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Sunday, September 13, 2026
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Cold arrives faster than the morning promised — arms crossed at the shoreline, cap on, watching the swell, everyone standing there exactly as nervous as everyone else. Then the horn, and the whole beach goes into the Pacific at once. This has run continuously since 1916, which makes it the oldest open water race in the country, older than most of the neighborhoods above it. The distances run from the Gatorman down to the shorter course, and the ones who have done it before will tell you the hard part is never the mileage. It is the first minutes, when the cold takes your breath and the bottom drops away and there is nothing under you but green. Spectators pack the bluff from dawn, and watching a thousand people enter the water together is not something you put down afterward. La Jolla Cove, registration through ljroughwater.com. Send it to the friend who keeps saying they want to try open water and has never picked a date.
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