Wel...We had a "dress-rehearsal" if you want to call it that.  We swam the half mile to the lighthouse at Philipse Manor and back (round-trip one-mile).  It was supposed to tbe the entire one-mile course but the weather/currents made that impossible.

The swim down-river (South) was easy enough considering we were swimming with the current.  When I say easy, I really mean it was a lot of work but not as energy-consuming as the swim back up river.  Trust me, after the first 1/4 mile I kept looking up like "Damn, the light house is still non-existant!"

I did it though.  Even if my course ended with practically crawling through a thick tangle of seaweed.  It was just...ew. I kept thinking at any minute I was going to see some life form swim from between the weeds.  I had an inner freak out.

News Channel 12 was there to interview me and some of the team members.  Unfortunately we Verizon Fios subscribers do not get the channel and in the name of not liking me, the website isn't free :-( So I don't even know when it airs.

THIRTEEN DAYS GUYS! *screeches* Sue Klein and Neil gave us a quick rundown of the day we will have.  Wake-up early, have a good breakfast, meet at the TNT tent to register.  I plan to get a massage if it's offered. 3-mile swimmers go first.  1-mile swimmers (that's me) will follow at around 9:15am. Swim, swim, swim, finish (hopefully not dead last again).  So yeah, it's here.  There's one last practice this weekend and an "Inspiration Dinner" (so cheesy lol).

When this is done, I can hang my medal (or whatever they give us) next to my 10K medal from last year.

My vacation season comes and I guess I'll go back to training straightaway for next year...

See me in the Journal News here and here.

You can still make a donation on my fundraising page at: http://pages.teamintraining.org/wch/Hudson09/tsimmonqot