Kim just dropped me an email to pass you on to you all about the first viewing of the documentary they have been making about her! For those of you who don’t know Kim, she and her father are legendary in Lake Ontario marathon swimming history!
http://openwaterpedia.com/index.php?title=Kim_Lumsdon
http://openwaterpedia.com/index.php?title=Cliff_Lumsdon
She’s swum Lake O twice before… and is going to give it another go this summer! Which would make her the oldest woman to cross (56)… going after current record holder (54), and fellow LOSTie… Colleen Shields! (who has also swum it twice!… and is putting together a relay swimming the length of Lake O this summer!).
Name: Against the Tide
Date: May 30, 2013
Time: 9:30 pm
Location: Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor Street West
The film is called “Open Water” and it is the first film screening in that program
Contact: Debora at: [email protected]
PS. a special “shout out” to another friend… from Jersey (the real Jersey… not New Jersey!) who also is also a 56 year old female marathon swimmer of much renown… Sally Minty Gravitt! http://openwaterpedia.com/index.php?title=Sally_Anne_Minty-Gravett Sal will attempt to do a double crossing of the English Channel!!! Only a very small number of people in the world have ever done a double… and like Kim… she’s going to the age record too! And in case all this wasn’t coincidental enough… they are even going on the same dates!
Good luck Kim and Sal!!! Let’s hope for flat water all around the world in July!!!
Cheers,
Rob