Memphremagog Winter Swimming Festival 2025 race report.
Back to the ice for a second year in a row! I'm not going to do a lot of background on this event this year. I covered that last year , so if you want to know how we found this event and why we first did it (TRISTA), go read that. For those who don't want to, but want to know what the heck this event even is, quoting myself from last year: So, what IS this event? In Newport, Vermont, in mid February, they cut a 25m long, 2 lane wide, hole in the ice of the frozen Lake Memphremagog, and then they hold a swim meet there. Ice swimming. A perfectly sane thing to do. Two days before the event, preparing the hole/pool! We had no idea what we'd gotten ourselves into last year, and we ended up having such an amazing time, and we knew we wanted to go back. And we wanted to do MORE. 2024 had been our proof of concept. Just making sure we could get in that water and still function at all. We swam one 25-meter event each day for 3 days last year, and that went great, and we wanted t...