Swimmer reaches Toronto despite high waves

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 …and this just in… Scott sent me the latest about Christine’s swim in the St Catherines Standard… what an amazing swim!!!

 

By Jeff Bolichowski, Standard Staff

Updated 24 minutes ago
 

A St. Catharines woman completed her swim across Lake Ontario this morning.

Christine Arsenault, 35, made it from Niagara-on-the-Lake to Toronto in 22 hours and 22 minutes, said boat crew member Doug Howard. Arsenault’s Twitter reported a time of 22:33.

Howard said while the weather was clear and pristine for the most part, at about 2 a.m. conditions began to sour. Arsenault was fighting waves four to five feet high for the last four or five hours of her run, he said.

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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!