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LOST Triathletes at Ironman Lake Placid!!!
Hey LOSTies, Hi from lovely Lake Placid! Just laying on the bed relaxing the afternoon away… before the Ironman tomorrow! The weather has been hit and miss… sunny, rainy, cloudy, windy… and that’s...
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Ironman Lake Placid… another great adventure!
…to borrow a line from Captain Matthew Webb, the first person to swim the English Channel in 1875… “nothing great is easy”. And IMLP was not easy. But it was great. So to set the stage… 13 LOSTies...
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The LOST Race celebrity starter: Pan Am Games silver medalist… Zack Chetrat!
So this is pretty cool… Dylan asked his old Oakville Aquatic Club teammate, Zack Chetrat, to be our celebrity starter… and he said “yes”! Zack… silver medal in 200 Butterfly at the 2015 Pan Am Games in...
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The 8th Annual LOST Race…“the cold year”…
So this year was shaping up to be a great year for the LOST Race. Two weeks out we were on pace for record registration (over 130 swimmers), Toronto was under a heat advisory, the Lake was over...
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New race added to the GSS… the Embrace Swimfest!!!
Check out the newest race added to the Global Swim Series… great variety of distances, something for everyone! Looks like fun… I think I’ll be doing the 5k! Cheers, Rob
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LOST Swimming, Aug 22… still good swimmin’!
60F, perfectly flat and clear! Nice. First of all… I know the pics are from the Embrace SwimFest on Sunday, rather than the LOST Swim on Saturday… but I seem to have lost the pics from Saturday! Oh...
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LOST Swimming: Aug 29, another great swim… and LOSTies head to Sweden!
46 LOSTies and 58F… still a bit cool, but calm and clear! A nice half hour swim! Okay, it was still a bit cool… but not bad. 58F/14C, chilly but not “stupid cold”. And the proof is in the pudding… we...
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3 upcoming races… and swimming in “Scooby Doo Lake”!
swimming in “Scooby Doo Lake”… ooh… spooooky! Okay, let me start by saying “yes, the water if finally warm!” So much so that we had a big of fog, making it look kid of spoooky… kind of like Scooby Doo...
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It’s warm, warm, warm!!!
56 LOSTies, 69F/20C… and we got to play in the waves! I often find that everyone is keen in the spring… but the water is cold… and then in the fall the water warms up… but interest is waning. But I was...
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TCoB’s Pier to Pier swim! A perfect swim!
TCoB’ers and LOSTies… getting ready! The Pier to Pier is always a nice (near) end of season swim. I was trying to figure out how many years this swim has been going on… I’m thinking around 10 years…...
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Frank’s Swim for Mental Health!
Hey LOSTies, Here is the information to our fellow LOSTie, Frank Zamuner’s “Swim for Mental Health”! A great cause and a great guy! Take a look, donate and participate if you can too! Cheers, Rob
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The Terry Fox… SWIM!!!
Hey LOSTies! Here is a chance to get another swim in this year… and donate to a great cause… in the name of the greatest Canadian! Last year we were asked to put on a Terry Fox “Swim” event instead of...
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Caledon Quarry Swim II
The start of the 2k! LOSTies and those after final Global Swim Series points made up a large proportion of those at the Caledon Quarry Swim II on Sunday, but there were also some really speedy young...
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The warmest swim this year!!!
23 swimmers and 73F!!! What a day for swimming… in September! After what has been a pretty cold summer (at least water-wise!), with one week in the middle of the summer at 45F/7C (that we still swam...
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The waves before the storm!
Sep 19, 2015… and still swimmin! 38 swimmers and 68F/19C!!! Well that was interesting! Mike and I got down there early to set up (and Mauro was already there setting up… thanks guys!) and there...
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Saving the best for last!!!
I think Darren said it first, but 3 or 4 other people came up to me after the swim yesterday and said “that was the best swim this year!” Yikes!!! To late now John! Yup, LOSTies certainly are an...
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… I guess calling the season last weekend was right… surf’s up!
Darius, catching a wave on the West Harbour side of the creek! So I decided to make the call last weekend to wrap up LOST Swimming for the season. The waves were pretty crazy, but the weather was warm...
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The 2015 LOST/Connor’s Runner’s Beer Mile!
And they are off!!! Sometimes when I write these posts I have to be a little creative to try and convey the fun we had at a specific event or swim, because it man not seem immediately obvious that...
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LOSTies in Kona!!!
Just got this pic from Lambrina of Helene and Brett in Kona, Hawaii… all set for the Ironman World Championships!!! In fact, I’m sure they are more than ready… anxiously waiting for 5 more sleeps!...
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Diana Nyad speaking in Toronto!!!
She has done some amazing swims (including a Lake Ontario Crossing in 1974… see the record book, under the Lake O Crossings tab above), but she’s coming to talk about her new book which was written...
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