Kevin and I played pickleball in the morning and then went to yoga: a busy day by Lac Louisa standards. I was on the couch reading my book, wondering how I was going to muster up the energy to swim when Isabel came over and said Karen was looking for a visit (she’s at home… Read More Visiting with Friends (Day 203)
Another day of Adult Swim. I spend most of my time these days swimming front crawl and so I decided to take advantage of the Adult Swim drills to work on my other strokes. When there was an option to choose our strokes, I tried to choose something besides front crawl. I don’t feel especially… Read More Practicing my Strokes (Day 202)
Every summer, Lac Louisa kids compete in swim meets against neighboring lakes in a day of fun and excitement, nervousness, cheering, sunshine, and swimming. Today was one of those: the annual Bi-lake meet where Lac Louisa faces up against Lac Marois. It was the first meet since summer 2019 (because, Covid). The last time we… Read More Lac Marois (Day 201)
It’s my 200th swim. I wish I was doing something special to mark the occasion, but it kind of snuck up on me and today is Adult Swim, so that is what I’m doing. For my 100th swim, I had Covid and swam alone in the San Francisco Bay at dawn, so this beats that… Read More Two Hundred Days of Swimming
I spent all morning thinking I should go for a swim before it starts thunder storming, but I waited and waited until the clouds were at their most gray and forbidding. By the time I changed into my bathing suit and slipped into the water, the storm was heavy in the air, imminent. I stayed… Read More Calm before the Storm (Day 199)
I swam to peanut island today with Kevin as my kayak spotter. Our first summers at the lake, Peanut Island (which we called Picnic Island) was a regular destination for our little family. It’s not very far away and it’s not very big, but when the kids were little it felt like a destination. We’d… Read More Peanut Island (Day 198)
I was told that you aren’t supposed to do much swimming the day before a big event; you’re supposed to taper your swim training. Having just read Sarah Thomas’s amazing account of her double North Channel swim (that’s from Scotland to Ireland and back again in 21 hours), my 3K tomorrow doesn’t seem especially “big.”… Read More Taking it Easy (Day 196)
I woke up super early this morning to drive Hazel’s friend back to the airport—a trip I had just made the night before to pick up Kevin. (Yay! Kevin’s home! I’m very happy to have 3/4 of us under the same roof again…now I’m just counting the days until Eliza joins us). After all of… Read More If my watch died, did I even swim? (Day 195)
I signed up for a 3K in the Ottawa River this summer in order to keep my swims interesting. It seemed far off when I signed up for it, but now it’s less than a week away. I’m not exactly nervous—I know I can do 3K, at least theoretically—but now that it’s getting close I… Read More 3K (Day 194)
It was another rainy Adult Swim. Promised thunderstorms didn’t manifest, just misty drippy skies and the repetition of swimming from one dock to the next over and over until I’ve done it 80 times. My mind goes through many stages in an hour of lap swimming. First, I’m so glad to be there. The water… Read More Repetition (Day 193)