- Lookin’ good – not your hair when you roll out of bed tomorrow when you head down for the second LOST swim of the season, but the water temp is lookin’ good! Up from the nippy 44F to around 60F… crazy, I know… but that’s Lake O! See you at 8:00! http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/glcfs.php?lake=o&ext=swt&type=N&hr=-1
- New Pricing – check out the prices offered by our sponsor Xterra Wetsuits (on the right hand side of this page)… they have lowered our “sponsored athlete” pricing even further! They were the number one brand at Ironman World Championships in Hawaii and those wimps don’t even swim in 44F water! 😉 PS. 24 LOSTies can’t be wrong!
- Penny Palfrey – is a friend of mine from Australia that I had the pleasure of spending a couple of weeks with in 2006 in Dover. We were waiting for the crappy weather to clear so we could swim the Channel. That’s the good thing about Dover the weather sucks, but you do get to spend a lot of quality time in pubs and coffee shops with people from around the world! Anyway, since then Penny has gone on to become one of the greatest marathon swimmers of all time! She has done more amazing swims than I could list here (but google her!)… and now she is setting the record for the longest (depending on how you define it) swim ever! She is swimming from Little Cayman to Grand Cayman… 109k… incredible. She was supposed to have gone already, but Dover isn’t the only place with rough weather, the winds have delayed her start until tomorrow. You can follow her at http://palfreymarathonswims.com/
- Pool swimming – for the newbies out there that are nervous or squeamish about open water swimming, I give them my favorite analogy: “open water swimming is to pool swimming, as trail running is to treadmill running!” No comparison, but a necessary evil… as I’m sure Melanie and Christine who have been training for their Lake O Crossings this summer will certainly attest. So with that in mind, one woman I know via the English Channel chat group is a little Japanese woman who is amazing. Now, to put this in perspective… my son, Dylan, who is on a NCAA scholarship in the US and can kick my ass, came home after a meet last weekend and was talking about a girl he met in warm ups, Caitlin Hodges, she was wearing a swimp3 (I’ve got one too, music for those long pool swims) and they were asking her about it. She said she wore it when she did long sets… like 20 x 1500… holding 19:30 pace! That’s unbelievable. But then I got an email about Miyuki… last week she swam 80k… in the pool… in about 15 hours & 48 minutes. Not much to say about that… just let that sink in. (mind you, she’s swum longer… 29.5 hours… but that wasn’t in a pool!)
Miyuki swam at 80km in Denver… in a 25m outdoor pool!
Date: From 9:00AM, 21st May, to 3:48:58PM, next day, 2011.
Place: Greenwood Athletic and Tennis Club (in Denver Colorado USA) of
the out door 25m pool
Swimmer: Miyuki
Distance Each time Total time Local time
1. 10km 3H 23M 19S 3H 23M 19S 09:00 to 12:23:19
2. 20km 3H 30M 21S 6H 53M 40S to 15:53:40
3. 30km 3H 34M 47S 10H 28M 27S to 19:28:27
4. 40km 3H 41M 17S 14H 09M 44S to 23:09:44
5. 50km 4H 07M 16S 18H 17M 00S to 03:17:00
6. 60km 4H 18M 53S 22H 35M 53S to 07:35:53
7. 70km 4H 09M 47S 26H 45M 39S to 11:45:39
8. 80km 3H 58M 19S 30H 48M 58S to 15:48:58
(Between total time when the swim was stopped in the feeding, the rest
room, and etc.: 1 hour and 03 minutes 30 seconds)
The weather: Fine is sometimes cloudy.
Air temperature: 7 – 23℃ (45 – 74 F)
Water temperature: 27℃ (81 F)
Feeding: Carbohydrate + Fructose + Tea = 300ml/Every 40 minutes
5. Aqua Pulse – a very cool new, global, on-line swimming magazine… that just so happens to have a feature story about our very own LOSTie, Melanie Price! (with a nice little mention of LOST too)… have a look… http://www.aquapulsemagazine.com/
6. You can’t always get what you want… so Speedo has launched a new website called “unforgetable swims”… I guess it is just more of a marketing page for swimming in general, rather than them trying to sell you something… just supporting the sport… which is good for the sport and, in the end, good for them too… hat’s off to Speedo. The cool thing about the site is that you get to post YOUR unforgettable swim… whatever that may be?! All kinds of different and cool swims… I posted mine… post yours… even if it was a LOST swim! http://unforgettableswims.speedo.com/en/swims/you-can’t-always-get-what-you-want/
Cheers,
Rob