So for those of you who stayed in bed, because it was a gloomy morning… well you missed a good one!
The Caledon Quarry Swim was a fun race! Yes, it rained… but hey, we’re swimmers! You’re in your bathing suit or wetsuit anyway… let’s just say that I’d much rather do a swim in the rain than a bike ride in the rain!
The long and short of it was: it was good value… $30 for a fun swim in a great swimming facility and free BBQ after! They had about 85 swimmers in the 3 races, 1k, 2k & 4k. Oh, and the question everyone wants to know this time of year… yes, it was warm! 67F/19C… and flat as a pancake! A great practice race for all the upcoming tri’s.
So Dylan and I decided to do it (along with a whole lot of other LOSTies!) together. We’re doing Ironman Lake Placid at the end of July, so we figured this should be a good test. But we both wimped out of doing the 4k… we decided to ease into it and just do the 2k. We’re saving that for the 3.8k race in 2 weeks (the RE7 North Shore Challenge in Lake Erie)… or at least that was our justification for just doing 2k!
Oddly, given the amount of swim training I’ve been doing, I felt pretty good. Hey, once in a while you get better than you deserve… but I’ll take it! I wasn’t able to keep up with the boy, but at least he didn’t embarrass me! He cruised to a 29:03 and I was 29:54. I wouldn’t say I cruised it, but I was able to keep my lungs in my chest, so that was good. Dylan got 2nd and some good points for the Global Swim Series and I should do okay with a 4th. At least the 3 kids that beat me were less than half my age… hey when you start getting old you take solace where you can!
Anyway, it was a fun race.
The next GSS races are:
1) Mine over Matter – Saturday, June 27, in Milton (Kelso)
2) RE7 North Shore Challenge – Sunday, June 28, in Lake Erie
… they both are going to be great! See you there!
Cheers,
Rob