Team Adorkable

End of an era.  While  Swimrun Lake James 2018  was our first swimrun race, seeing photos from Swimrun NC was what made us fall in love with the concept of swimrun in the first place. When we finally did the race in  2019 , we had an amazing time, and it fully had our hearts. It was a must-do every year (even choosing it over the much-more-convenient-for-me Swimrun Austin the year they were both held the same weekend).  The pandemic ate the race in 2020, but we were back for 2021 and 2022. 2023 they took a break to reassess, ready to come back strong for 2024. Except then Hurricane Helene hit North Carolina, and the race was postponed from Fall 2024 to Spring 2025. And announced to be the final running of Swimrun NC. Devastating. My training in Fall 2024 was going well. I joined the  Envol Startline Ready  group for  Rockman Swimrun , which started in November. That felt egregiously early for a race in early July, but now I'm SO glad I did, becau...

 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...