… and the “witch” in this case is “winter”!
I know, I’m probably like the rest of you and think that I’ve jinxed it… but I’m going out on a limb here and going to say that the winter of 2013/14 is finally over. About freakin’ time. Early April to be exact.
This hasn’t been the most motivational winter, to be sure. As you’ve probably noticed, I haven’t even had much gumption in putting out the LOST posts… but I’m back, baby!
I know we’ve had snow storms in April before, and they melt quickly and are disheartening and all, but I don’t recall a winter quite like this one before, where winter started in mid-November… and stayed. Cold, icy, snowy, everything… and a lot of it.
(okay this video is a bit of a cheat… because it wasn’t in Oakville, was just posted a couple of days ago… but it pretty much says it all about this winter… mind you… it says it all in a Newfie accent!… Jumpin’ Jesus!)
It had to be about the worst winter to try and train for a marathon… mind you it was a good winter to find a destination marathon… so Joanne and I went to the Bahamas for our 
25th wedding anniversary and ran the Bahamas Marathon (see the earlier post on that)… and Maisey and Jillian and I did get one of the few really nice days for skiing over March break at Mount St Louis Moonstone. So there was at least one day when we enjoyed the snow this winter. And I shouldn’t forget the fun we had at the fittingly very cold LOST Polar Bear Dip… oh ya, and the Winter Pub Run!
So I guess it wasn’t all bad… but this winter really did suck.
Bring on the summer… and open water swimming! It will be interesting to see if this winter and the frozen Great Lakes play a factor in the water temperature this summer… we’ll see.
Regardless… I’m shooting for the first Saturday in June for the first official LOST Swim of 2014… June 7! (I’m counting the LOST Polar Bear Dip as a “dip” rather than the first “swim”… which it was!)
I’ll keep you posted!
PS. if you are wondering about registering for LOST Swimming this year, Miguel and I have been working on implementing on-line
registration… so we should have that up shortly! (we’re also going to have the LOST Store up too, where you can order all kinds of LOST merchandise too!).
See you soon!
Cheers,
Rob