Hey all,
Well I just had to post this email I got from fellow LOSTie, Claudia Hutchinson, who just did the Olympic Distance Triathlon World Championships in Budapest!!!
I wanted to brag for her (she’s far too modest!) and share her email with you… a nice plug about the benefits of LOST Swimming… see, I’m not crazy, it really does help!!!
Cheers,
Rob
Hey Rob
I’m in Budapest and did the Worlds Olympic triathlon a couple of days ago…..the Danube was only 56 F so all the swims I did in the big Lake O definitely helped. So I need to say thank you for forming LOST and for making me feel welcome and part of the group and for encouraging me to swim in some very cold water. It really helped on race day here in Budapest!
I hope your training is going well!
Claudia Hutchinson B.A., C.N.P.
Claudia,
Joanne and I were talking about you on the weekend, we thought your big race was coming up shortly! Congrats!!! World Champs… that is really amazing! We are both very happy for you and can’t wait to hear about the whole thing, what a spectacular race and location!
That’s pretty chilly for a big Olympic tri… but I am glad that LOST swimming paid off for you! You must have felt like you had a bit of an ace up your sleeve because I’m sure there would have been tons of people all panicked about the water temp!
A big part of swimming in water that cold, if not all of it, is the mental toughness and confidence… you are very unlikely to get hypothermia in a wetsuit, in 56F, in a 1.5km race, because you simply aren’t in there long enough. Also LOST Swimming would have made your body somewhat familiar with the cold water conditioning… but the benefit is mostly mental. If you can say to yourself “ya, that’s cold, but what the hell, I’ve swum in water that cold before”… then you know you’ll be able to do it… and you’ll have a huge advantage on those that didn’t know they could do it… and you don’t come out of the swim all rattled either. It’s still a tough swim… but you know that you are tough too!
Ya done us LOSTies proud!!!
Congrats!
Cheers,
Rob
And in case you were wondering how she did… she was 30th in her division, with an overall time of 2:29! Very impressive! (31:02 for the swim!!!)
