I am still marveling over the wonderful swims available in Alaska and find it a bit heretical to post "on top" of Grumpy Tuna's nice Sitka swim report, but I haven't heard much talk of the Boston Light Swim this year. Any forumites doing the oldest sanctioned OW swim in North America next weekend?
www.bostonlightswim.org/
i am.
there are about 7 or 8 CIBBOWS swimmers heading to bean town. we won't be wearing our yankee caps.
Sounds like a takeover! Remember what happened last time somebody riled those rapscallion Bostonians!
Good swims for all, and I'll look forward to reading some blog postings! (Still waiting for what happened on the Catalina swim...)
:)
This year Boston Light Swim could not have been better. Well, maybe the water could have been a little warmer. The water was around 58 degrees at the start and warmed up to 62-63 degrees as the swimmers got closer to the finish. The weather was perfect, 83 degrees, with very little wind. I was a fast, close race. The first 3 solo swimmers were within seconds of eachother. It was almost a running race at the end. 20 of 25 solo swimmers finished the swim. The NY CIBBOWS group had a great showing and they were a lot of fun. Below are the results:
Solo Swimmer Results with age and time:
1. Elizabeth Mancuso, 24, 2:42:15
2. Dori Miller, 39, 2:42:45
3. Lance Ogren, 39, 2:42:57
4. Robert Fernald, 43, 2:52:35
5. Davis Lee, 35, 2:58:23
6. Humphrey Bohan, 35, 2:58:43
7. Dave Barra, 45, 3:00:31
8. Don MacDonald, 48, 3:01:08
9. Douglas McConnell, 52, 3:08:49
10. Sheryl Bierden, 37, 3:15:57
11. Eileen Burke, 47, 3:24:23
12. Kyle Murray, 51, 3:30:22
13. Kim Garbarino, 52, 3:39:26
14. Mike Hodel, 33, 3:39:58
15. Courtney Paulk, 40, 3:44:38
16. Ralph Macintyre, 59, 3:47:56
17. Alan Morrison, 48, 3:48:40
18. Rachel Golub, 33, 3:50:00
19. Dave Evangelista, 47, 4:14:45
20. John Daprato, 57, 4:23:44
DNF: Suzanne Sataline, Kenn Lowy, Dave Osmond, William Dailey, Darlene Awalt
Relays:
1. Seb Neumayer, Santiago Lima, John Kelleher, 2:42:19
2. Doug McKell, James Walker, Bobby Dawe, 3:36:26
3. Mike Ribeiro, Rebecca Osborn, 3:45:57
4. Amy Wu, Silverio Bracaglia, 4:03:31
