So, last night I read through the website for the swim I’m doing in July.  Please note I’ve never done a lake swim before and haven’t ‘raced’ in 40+ years.  The swim in actually 2100 meters (2.1 km). If I figure yesterdays swim in the pool, I’m doing about 37 minutes for the above distance.  There are 650 swimmers in the race.  My god!!  Ages ranging from 15 to over 70.  I figure my time

I have a ‘cross the lake swim’ I’m going to be doing in Kelowna, BC on July 20th.  2.2 kilometers (about 2300 yards).  One width of the lake.  I work out pretty regularly in the pool but wanted to see how long it took me to do 2500 meters(2.5 KM) at a steady pace. It took me about 45 minutes of continuous swimming.  Allowing for no line on the bottom of the lake to follow,

I’m helping a friend of mine, Grant Boshoff, promote his first book. It’s pretty good – excellent in fact! It is a free download until midnight tonight- 6 June 13(I had to pay…so if you end up paying a couple of bucks – worth it.) Check it out – it is fairly short and an excellent read: http://amzn.to/14KPgu9

Last weekend my sons and I went to the Water Valley Rodeo to watch and take some pictures.  It has been raining a lot so the ground being wet, made for some slippery conditions as you can see.  (No one got hurt.)  The Water Valley Rodeo is about an hour north of Calgary up Cowboy Trail and a few miles west of Water Valley.  Beautiful country.

If you are Welsh or just like good historical fiction, this book is a fantastic read. It may or may not be close to a true accounting but he sure makes a pretty good argument and an amazing story to boot: http://www.jamesalexanderthom.com/child.html