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During the race, I told Trista that back when I was doing triathlons, I always tried to do new events, rarely wanting to repeat ones I'd done in the past. That just didn't interest me. Maybe some of the local events that were super convenient, but if I was going to travel, I wanted to see something new. I don't feel the same way about swimrun. This is the fourth time we've done Swimrun Lake James, and I'm just as excited to come back and do it again next year. Swimrun events always feel new and exciting, even if it's a course you've done before. It's never exactly the same experience. It's always an amazing adventure. And that was just as true this year, our fourth Lake James, as it was when we did it our first year, as our first ever swimrun ! The one that got us hooked. Aww, freshly-hatched 2018 Adorkables! Perfect weather, perfect partner, perfect swimrun family. That's it. That's the report. Thanks for reading! Just kidding. I have to do

Sometimes you hear about an event, and you think "that sounds amazing, and I want to do that." That was Trista and the  Memphremagog Winter Swimming Festival . Sometimes you hear about an event, and you think "that sounds truly miserable and I never want to do that." That's.. most people, probably, when they hear about the Memphremagog Winter Swimming Festival. And then sometimes, one of those people who desperately wants to do it reaches out to you to ask if you're interested, and it's not a bucket list item for you, but it also doesn't repel you, and you know you'll have massive FOMO if you don't join... and that's me and the Memphremagog Winter Swimming Festival. I had to dig back through my chat history to figure out exactly how this whole dumb idea started. I mean, I knew it started with Trista, so I could target my search to just conversations with her. I didn't remember until the searching, though, that she first mentioned the