Every year, on the last Saturday of April (just after the ocean ice has finally broken!) Pitea has this crazy AWESOME tradition: the Pitea Kanalsim (canal swim). A canal goes through town connecting our two harbors - 950 meters in length. Fins and full wet suit are required; every seam in the suit water might enter is taped with duck-tape. I was completely intrigued when I heard about this and HAD to do it!!
We had a bbq in our backyard with friends right before the swim to celebrate...(thanks again, guys!)
These pics are from the race's end-
Davin checking out my strange suit!
How was it? SURVIVAL was my only thought! Of course "competition" was first before entering the water (-I was with some of my swim team friends), but that quickly lost place as soon as the cold hit! It took a lot to regulate my breathing (plus my borrowed equipment was super crummy - not much help) but I finally hit a good rhythm by half way and thoroughly enjoyed it from there!! No regrets on this one - an amazing experience!! (plus I survived ;)
My medal for survival - yeah!
(btw, I ended up 6th out of 20, and second woman)
There was a city celebration at the park afterwards; the second video is Davin going NUTS in the bounce house :)
The first video gives an idea of the swim (-it's really loooong, so just take a peak if you want); I was #12 :)
2 comments:
So cool! You are a rock star!
Wow seriously Amazing you are super cool, probably literally after that :) anyhow. Sounds like you had fun. Hopefully you are dethawed though. Anyways it is really super fun to see your blog, I wish you gusy were closer, anyhow thanks for updating I will have to finish looking at it later I looked at a few of the first post over the past few days, it might take me a couple weeks to look at the whole thing.
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