It’s a go!!!

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Here’s the latest… looks like it’s a go!!!

Morning!
The team is back at the launch site and the word was that GO time was 7:50 a.m. local time (5:50 EST) in order to catch the Slack Tide (sounds like a good idea!).

It’s on! The sun is rising and it is a beautiful morning. Madhu has tested the waters. The team is pumped, focused and ready!

The team seems to be out of the SPOT auto check in range, but the manual ones seem to be ok, so Mike will do his best to manually hit that checkin button.

Let’s pace together this morning, across the distances, and wrap Madhu, Mike and Alan in our positive energy.

I will also post on Madhu’s Facebook page, and keep on checkingitsnotaboutswimming.com for those SPOT check ins (fingers crossed!).

Yours in excitement,
Tracey

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I founded LOST Swimming because I like open water swimming and would like to see it grow and thrive in Lake Ontario. I started as a competitive swimmer as a kid and ended up getting as far as a silver medal at Nationals and going to the Olympic Trials in 1988. But I retired after that, I was sick of swimming. So I got into running marathons and have run over 35 to date, as well as a few ultra marathons, including the Marathon des Sables (7 day, ultra across the Sahara Desert). I also kind of fell into triathlons and have done a handful of Ironman tri's too. This gradually got me back in the water and in 2006 I took the plunge and attempted swimming the English Channel. I didn't quite make it across, but the circle was now complete and after 17 years I was a swimmer again! Although I still do plenty of pool swimming, I now much prefer open water swimming and like to say that open water swimming is to pool swimming, what trail running is to treadmill running! As a result I hope to encourage more people to join me for a dip in Lake Ontario as often as we can!