Hi everyone,
I just wanted to let you know that Rob is leaving on his Lake Ontario Crossing tonight, (technically tomorrow, 0300 Monday, Aug 13)!!! So there should be some updates when you wake up in the morning!
If you would like to follow along there are 3 places to look:
1) I will do my best to post comments each hour (approx on the hour), on the LOSTswimming.com website. It will give a bit of a verbal description coming in live from the crew.
2) those same posts will be copied to the LOST Swimming page on Facebook as well.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/113823994902/
3) there will be a live GPS feed on a system called “SPOT“, that you can see by clicking on this link.
http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0oFo7YIKcPMiNqobbp0HgqTH0rg3VnNXV
Currently the weather conditions look okay, but as you have all seen, the weather has been changing quickly and dramatically in the last couple of days, so we are keeping our fingers crossed!
Rob and his crew of 15 people, on 4 boats, will be leaving Port Dalhousie and swimming exactly the same distance as was run in the last event at the Olympics today… a full marathon distance of 42.2 km!
The finish will be at the Navy Street Pier in Oakville (aka The LOST Beach!). Of course we all want to know how long it will take him… and of course we don’t know the answer, but best guess is around 15 hours (with a big give or take!), which would have him arriving around dinner time tomorrow! But the best way to find out for sure will be to track him on the website! So if you can make it down to the pier, I know he’d love to see you when he finishes his marathon swim!
Cheers,
Joanne