The last last swim at Lac Louisa today. I woke up early this morning after not enough sleep, a pile of chores in front of me to get our house cleaned and packed up, and decided to swim before I did anything else. The day was already warm, the water calm. I waded in, dawdling… Read More Last Swim (Day 218)
I celebrated my last night at the lake with a beautiful sunset swim at the sandbar. I haven’t gone for a night swim all summer nor have I made a trip to the sand bar. The sand bar is a shallow, sandy-bottomed part of the lake where, on a hot day, sometimes you can find… Read More Sunset at the Sandbar (Day 217)
Today was my last Adult Swim—the first big last as we wind up our summer here at Lac Louisa. I was feeling all the sad feels; all the it’s gone by too fasts; all the resistance to change; the happy-right-where-I-ams. The weather matched my mood: a gray and cloudy sky, heavy with rain that eventually… Read More Lasts (Day 216)
I woke up at five this morning and wasn’t able to get back to sleep. Or maybe I would have been able to, but before I managed it, I had the thought that I’ve yet to do a sunrise swim and wouldn’t this be a great opportunity? Once the thought was there, I couldn’t put… Read More Lac Louisa Sunrise (Day 215)
It was a misty, drippy morning; warm and muggy, slightly raining. The world felt quiet and sleepy as I slipped into the water for Adult Swim. The scene was set for a relaxing swim, a meditative lapping back and forth, getting into a zone. Ha! They fooled me. For today’s workout, we had to spell… Read More Butterfly (Day 214)
I was supposed to go to yoga at the club this morning and Karen offered to feed me if I came by her house after. For a variety of reasons I didn’t make it to yoga and so I decided to swim over to Karen’s instead. I set off on what is now my usual… Read More Lunch Date (Day 213)
It was a three-swim day: the first was to wake up after a late night of fun and not enough sleep. The second was an escape; a fleeing from irritating chores and conversations, from my own bad mood. That was my longest swim of the day; around the bay and back again, a lovely retreat… Read More Clearing my Head (Day 212)
A highlight of each summer at the lake is the Lawrence Irany Great Relay Race. Now in its 36th year, the race starts off with a 6.5-kilometer bike ride along the windy, gravelly ups and downs of the lake roads. The biker then hands the baton (sweatband) over to a runner for a 4.5-kilometer trek… Read More The Great Relay Race (Day 211)
It was a little cold and blustery today, as if Autumn was whispering from the other room; not here yet, but promising she’d be arriving soon. Isabelle and I went over to Karen’s to lounge in her lovely screened-in porch and soon Diane joined us, then Kevin, Eliza and Lulu. We drank tea and talked,… Read More Gratitude (Day 210)
I had just completed my 300 warm-up in Adult Swim when the thought struck me: I forgot to turn off the oven. It wasn’t a question, but a terrible certainty. I made granola this morning and, because I was rushing, I stuck it in the oven at 350 with the intention of turning the oven… Read More The Oven (Day 209)
Jenny Swimming 