3 weeks to go! I'm up at camp, I brought Trin and Michaela with me, partly to give them a crossroads experience, and partly so they would help me focus on continuing to train. I've been teaching Bronze Med/Cross and on the break times I've been swimming in Black Lake. The girls have done some of it with me and some of it on paddle boards beside me. Yesterday we went across to the far side of the lake and back, and then to pine tree point and back twice. It was funny to see the staff reactions. For Bronze Med/Cross they all have to swim to pine tree point and back (round trip 600m), and its a real struggle for some of them. So to see me, with a 15 and 13 yr old beside me just doing the lake like its nothing seems crazy, and then to know what my actual goal is, and what Trin has already done. I don't actually need people to be amazed at me, I really really don't. This is a very personal goal, and I'm doing it for me and nobody else. But it is nice for people to be able to understand what I'm talking about and to have some perspective on it.
I'm bringing Trin and Michalea up to Georgian Bay next week where we'll meet Christine and I'll camp with them for a night. Apparently there's some good spots to swim there, and waves! That would be the only thing I feel unprepared for. I've never training in actual waves. The canal is flat, even when its windy its flat with a bit of a current.
I sent in blood work one last time before leaving for camp so I'm curious about those results!
Mileage this week: 20km.
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