Hello everyone!
We had to take a long hiatus from blogging because both of our semesters got a bit hectic.
Turns out 4th year of university is busy! Who would have thought.
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| This is how we have both felt this semester, and now we are! |
The training plan is ramping up and Kaylynn and I have been spending many hours in the pool
each week. I’m still working on finding a wetsuit to help me bear the chilly waters of the straight. We’re working on finding launching and landing sites. As of now it looks like we’ll be landing in Pipers Lagoon in Nanaimo, but as for a launch site we’re not 100% sure where we want to start from.
We have a few more people we would like to thank as they’re going to be donating their time
and money to help us out. Trevor Vestad is our lovely lifeguard/paramedic/safety-man-extraordinaire who is going to follow us all day, swim a bit with us, and hopefully rescue us if we get into trouble. He has all of this fancy equipment to help save us – here’s to hoping he doesn’t need to use it!
Seeing as it’s a bit far to swim unaccompanied across the Strait of Georgia, we need a boat!
Instead of finding a boat, we found a lovely man named Hugh McGillivray who has a yacht he is going to captain for us. Thank-you so much for helping us gentlemen! Your help is invaluable.
Kaylynn and I have also discussed the training plan and weather conditions a bit more. We are
still going to train as if we are swimming the full distance side by side (so we would both train to swim 35km), barring any serious conditions arising. We both have struggled at times keeping up with the training plan, and Kaylynn has an amazing opportunity to go to Tanzania for a month which means she won’t have any specific training facilities. Lack of training makes completing the swim difficult, however we are both confident we will be able to complete it. The bigger concern is weather, which unfortunately we have no control over. If there are serious weather conditions on July 19th swim date), then we may switch to a relay style. We would both launch from the beach together and swim the first 5km, along with Trevor if he feels like getting his feet wet (get it? Hehe), and then we will alternate swimming 5km each, and then we will swim into the landing beach together as well. Optimistically we should be able to swim the entire thing but weather is incredibly unpredictable and uncontrollable. Hopefully the conditions will be favourable that day!
Until next time,
Caryn
