The last LOST swim of 2013!!!

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Well that’s a wrap… and this concludes our regularly scheduled programming for LOST Swimming, 2013!

Wrapping it up for 2013!
Wrapping it up for 2013!

The great Lady of the Lake politely asked us to finish up for the season yesterday.  Darren and I were off this week and swam a couple of K each morning on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday… and the Lady was fine with that… Tuesday it was 70F… Wednesday it was 69F… and then… just so we’d know this was the end of the season… Thursday was 57F!

It was fine swimming though, it’s not like the Lady of the Lake was mad or anything… the water was flat and beautiful… she just wanted to let us know it was time to wrap it up!  So yesterday we had our last LOST Swim of 2013… 15 swimmers… 57F / 13C… cool, but still swim-able… most got in 2-4 laps in the 45 minutes or so… mind you, a warm coffee at Brett’s after was well deserved!

So after the 8th season of LOST Swimming, I’m not going to go on about all the fun and accomplishments we all had this summer… although there were lots of them… and lots of fun too… I’m just going to leave it with:  thanks for coming out and enjoying a nice swim in the Lake with me and all the other LOSTies… it wouldn’t be the same without you!… and if you didn’t make it out this year… well, there is always next year!  See you then!

PS.  In fact, I do mean “next year”… as in the Polar Bear Dip on Jan 1, 2014!!!

Cheers,

Rob

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I founded LOST Swimming because I like open water swimming and would like to see it grow and thrive in Lake Ontario. I started as a competitive swimmer as a kid and ended up getting as far as a silver medal at Nationals and going to the Olympic Trials in 1988. But I retired after that, I was sick of swimming. So I got into running marathons and have run over 35 to date, as well as a few ultra marathons, including the Marathon des Sables (7 day, ultra across the Sahara Desert). I also kind of fell into triathlons and have done a handful of Ironman tri's too. This gradually got me back in the water and in 2006 I took the plunge and attempted swimming the English Channel. I didn't quite make it across, but the circle was now complete and after 17 years I was a swimmer again! Although I still do plenty of pool swimming, I now much prefer open water swimming and like to say that open water swimming is to pool swimming, what trail running is to treadmill running! As a result I hope to encourage more people to join me for a dip in Lake Ontario as often as we can!