We had our first LOST swimmer swim in a swim meet!!! Unbeknownst to me, Anna-Marie Purvis swam last weekend in the Burlington Masters “Winter Splash” swim meet… and she did really well!!!
For those of you who don’t know Anna-Marie, she was one of those swimmers who stumbled across our group or our site and just showed up one Saturday morning. Very quiet and unassuming… and with no wetsuit!
A lot of those swimmers end up being “one off” swimmers, which is fine, it’s not everyone’s bag… but it is always great to see them come out a second time. And Anna-Marie show up again… and kept coming back… and actually became a regular… and she even did the LOST Race!
The cool thing is that she started out quite rusty (and I mean this as a compliment) and gradually got better and better. She also isn’t a triathlete or some former super-star age group swimmer and had never been a big open water swimmer either… and hadn’t actually swum for years… but this got her back in it!
And if you read the LOST Philosophy at the side of this page, that’s exactly what I believe in… “participation”! So now she’s quietly taken it to the next level and became the first LOST Swimmer in a swim meet! Atta go Anna-Marie!!!
Check out her results… she put up some very respectable times in: 50 Fly (pg 2), 100 IM (pg8) and 100 Free (pg 9)! http://bmsc.ca/images/stories/files/2011_Wintersplash_results.pdf
Cheers,
Rob
WEY HEY ANNA-MARIE
WHAT A GIRL U STILL ARE
WELL DONE VERY WELL DONE !!!!
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