Good Morning to all! Well it's Friday morning of the May long weekend and here I am again on the computer working away on our swim details! Instead of planning my long weekend getaway... a camping weekend or a weekend of day trips I am choosing to work on our swim. It's a good choice though because we only have 67 days left until we splash into Lake Ontario in Kingston and there is still so much to do and organize! So today my day is booked with letters to corporations (with attachments of our swim and donation requests), phone calls to make to say thank you to all of those wonderful people I have met over the past few weeks of travelling to Kingston and Cobourg and so on... Going to continue to work on our website and get that up and running full steam and oh the dreaded "pay pal /fundrazr" connections to our facebook page and website so that many of you can join in our fundraising goal of $300,000. I have never learned so much in such a short time (well hold that thought... I just took over the school because mommy is home bound and in a wheel chair for now, and the school still needs to run..so OK..I have learned way too much ove a very short time on that note) but the swim stuff is much more fun to figure out! I am mentally, physically and emotionally exhausted but hey isn't that the same feeling as swimming Lake Ontario? Well then I guess I will just have to go with my motto and "Put My Big Girl Panties On, and Suck it Up"! LOL
In the past 3 weeks, I have travelled to Kingston 2 times, Cobourg 3 times and Iroquois 1 time in search of support boats for our swim. In Kingston I met the with Mayor's Assistant (The Mayor was in Toronto..LOL) and had a long chat with her about our swim and what we wanted or wished from Kingston. The response was incredable! So much support and enthusiasm for our swim and all of a sudden I was not feeling defeated, I was feeling once again re-energized! It's amazing what one's words can do to lift a spirit! I also met with someone from Parks and Recreation to find out and organize our departure spot at Kingston's own Confederation Park (right donwtown) and again was given some great advice and contacts. Kingston has rocked so far..Keep it going Kingston!
From Kingston (2nd trip) I ventured to Iroquois to meet up with a gentleman who is thinking and hopefully wants to be part of our first leg of the swim (Kingston to Cobourg) with is sailboat. I did my best to convince him..even wore a cute little dress to try to get my best features noticed... LOL Not sure if it worked but hey I gave it my best shot. I am just awaiting his response! Keep your fingers crossed!
(I just want to mention that my second trip to Kingston and Iroquois, I was extremely ill with Bronchial Pneumonia (?) and couldn't breath, really talk or even stand up..but again big panties were on for the good cause of our swim!) LOL
On my way home I stopped in at Cobourg for one last try at drumming up boat support! Once there, I was in my element and just chatted away with these two wonderful people at the Cobourg Marina. I guess my passion and excitement was infectious and all of a sudden I found myself being interviewed by one of Cobourg's finest newspaper journalists and in front of a camera! OMG.... Not today..not while being sick and feeling like poop! But it turned out to be one of the best pics I have taken in a long time...LOL I have attached the article he wrote about our swim..please take a look at it! It's a good one!
From that day I was invited back to Cobourg Tuesday May 14th for a meeting with the Cobourg Yacht Club to present our swim and requests! It was a room full of boaters, sailors and they were extremely proud of what we were doing and admired our commitment to success! I received a business card from a gentleman at that meeting who then put me in contact with a gentleman from Toronto, the Chair of Lake Ontario Cruising Association and who represents 22,000 boaters/sailors..He will be putting our boat request in their newsletter next week. My God..if we can't get support from a few of those boaters, we are in big trouble! LOL Keeping fingers crossed! Please cross your fingers too!
So that has been my last 3 weeks... busy, whirlwind travelling adventures! Tomorrow, Saturday May 18th I will be heading down to Toronto's Piers and Ontario Place to see if I can't get more boat support from those who will have their boats parked and enjoying this lovely long weekend! Not sure what I am going to wear..LOL but will try to make a good impression. I think that Mona and Rebekah (2 of the other swimmers on our team of 5) will hopefully be joining me..maybe if they see young ladies instead of my 47 year old body they may think twice! LOL
On Sunday I will be in the pool, trying to finally get my mojo back in the water from a long stint of being sick and not being able to train. Ihope I survive the workout! I know Coach Dean's workouts..they are brutal but that's what I need right now!
On Monday May 20th, Rebekah, Mona and myself are going to take a nice cold dip into Lake Ontario...it may only be a "wading" dip but we will see, I will have my suit on just in case we can get a chance to get our heads wet! LOL
I hope everyone has a great long weekend and while you are all enjoying this weather and drinks and just chilling, remember us... pounding the pavement for a great cause and an amazing swim coming this summer, July 2013!
Singing out for now...
Nikki
Marathon Swim Article!
http://www.northumberlandtoday.com/2013/05/08/marathon-swim-to-support-because-i-am-a-girl?utm_source=addThis&utm_medium=addthis_button_email&utm_campaign=Relay+will+go+from+Kingston+to+Burlington+%7C+Sports+%7C+Northumberland+Today#.UYrRpN_lg10.email
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