Seeüberquerung

The daily chocolate bars have definitely taken a toll on my shape, so now that the weather is nice I'm making an effort to run & swim more. Last week Zürich held the Seeüberquerung which is a 1.45km swim across Lake Zürich with safety kayaks and police boats along the way to control boat traffic. I had wanted to do this last year, but the water temperature never reached the minimum 21 degrees since we had such a poopy summer. Rob took a 1/2 day off work so that he & Lukas could be my cheering section at the finish. At first I was kind of nervous, but at the start I realized that a lot of people weren't even wearing googles. I quickly switched from being nervous to being annoyed at all of the slowpokes in my way! Apparently, it is much more of a fun swim with people just casually swimming along in groups & talking along the way. But it was a gorgeous sunny day & the water temp was perfect. It is funny that even at something like this, there are still cultural differences. At the finish, after exiting the water there were booths with drink & food for the swimmers. I grabbed what looked like a gatorade - but then scalded my tongue on what was hot tea instead! Hmmmm? It was over 80 degrees outside! The food turned out to be a big bowl of risotto - no bananas or power bars here. Lukas was excited to see me at the finish - just one of 5000 orange caps.

Can you spot me in the crowd?