… as you can see from the 2 posts below, there were two heartbreaking swims this weekend… Kim Lumsdon’s attempt at her 3rd Lake O Crossing… and the “Because Girls Can”, 5 girl relay, which was to swim from Kingston to Burlington, but “only” made it as far as Whitby.
Both swims were still exceptional in their attempts though! I am, and always will be, a HUGE fan of people that have the courage to do something that they aren’t sure if they can do.
I’ve done it several times and been successful (Manhattan Island Marathon Swim, Lake Ontario Crossing, Marathon des Sables)… and I’ve had my failures too (14 tries at qualifying for the Boston Marathon before getting it and coming up about 5k short in swimming the English Channel!). It’s nice when the “failures” are still worth it though… it truly does make it that much sweeter when you get there… and even if you don’t ever get there… the adventure and life experience of trying something big and falling short, still makes it well worth the effort!
Congrats to Kim… Colleen, Rebekah, Samantha, Nicole and Mona for dreaming big and actually giving it all your best! Nothing wrong with that! Well done girls!
Oh yes… and I was going to say a little something about our LOST Swim on Saturday too… it was great!
I mean it looked like it was going to a crappy day… recall the last two weeks… 76F two weeks ago… and then 46F last weekend! And the water temp map was saying that we “might” get 60F… if we were lucky!
So when we arrived and we only had air temp of 22C… overcast… and “big” waves breaking on the shore… it didn’t look to good. But I did my usual thing and carried the kayak down to the water and took the thermometer with me… I walked in and… it was warm! Really warm! It was 74F!!!
Naturally no one believed me. I mean it just didn’t “look” warm.
But when all 45 of us got in there wasn’t a “cold water squeal” to be heard!
Big thanks as usual to our regular volunteers (we actually survived without Mel and Bill… phew!)… Mike set up the 700m course and he and Jill manned the kayaks… Elizabeth managed registration… Frank and his posse collected for the Swim for Mental Health raffle (see that one below… great prizes and only for our group, so great odds!). The long and short of it was a really nice hour or so swim and nice to see a nice big turn out at “Bean There” for coffee after too!
Remember… only 2 weeks until the LOST Race!!! (still looking for a few Volunteers!)
See you next week!
Cheers,
Rob
