So last fall I got a call from someone I’d never met, asking me about open water swimming. Not that unusual, LOST swimming has become quite well known in the world of open water swimming, so I get calls and emails pretty regularly… the interesting twist was that this guy wanted to start a race right here in Toronto and wanted to know how to do it!!!
His name is Steve Hulford and he and his swimming partner had been swimming out at the Toronto Islands last year and discovered… low and behold… that Lake O is actually a great place to swim! And they thought it might be cool to start a race there!
Steve also happens to have two useful qualifications to just that… he’s a good swimmer, having swum for U of T, back a few years ago… and he’s a pretty entrepreneurial guy. Just what is needed to build something like this. So he and I went out for coffee a few times, chatted and emailed a bunch… and then he disappeared for a while… and recently surfaced with this:
Looks great… good work guys!!! You can count me and a lot of LOSTies in!
PS. We are even looking at tying a few races together to make an open water series right here in Ontario! More to come!
Cheers,
Rob
