Record for longest swim

Donna, you are incredible! It's been inspiring to follow your journey. In the summer of 2005 I was in Upstate NY on vacation and we needed to get from Saranac Lake, NY to New Hampshire so we took a ferry across Lake Champlain. With the mountains on one side and the beautiful town of Burlington, VT on the other side I couldn't help but think how awesome it would be to swim across it. A few months after that I found out that there actually is an organized swim across Lake Champlain and it's now on my schedule for August. Sister Golden Hair (Katie my training buddy) is doing it with me. I can't wait! Julie This is a really nice swim. I did it in 1999 and had a great time. The only bad part was a Canadian boat started playing "chicken" with me and my support boat. Turns out my boat captain was a good friend of the local Coast Guard commander and radioed for help. A Coast Guard boat stopped them and basically told them if they didn't want their boat impounded and them swimming back to Canada, they had better quit it. End of issue. There wasn't alot to see once the race started because the haze obscured most landmarks, that plus, you really only go past a few local islands, and not really close to them, in the 8 miles of the swim. It's not really a race, so you could wear a wet suit (water was 65 or so, I believe). We stayed at a placed called Willey's Farm B&B - very nice. Also had really good sandwiches at a place called "The Grateful Bread" and dinner at some place (can't remember the name) in Burlington run by the local culinary school. Enjoy. -LBJ

Donna, you are incredible! It's been inspiring to follow your journey. In the summer of 2005 I was in Upstate NY on vacation and we needed to get from Saranac Lake, NY to New Hampshire so we took a ferry across Lake Champlain. With the mountains on one side and the beautiful town of Burlington, VT on the other side I couldn't help but think how awesome it would be to swim across it. A few months after that I found out that there actually is an organized swim across Lake Champlain and it's now on my schedule for August. Sister Golden Hair (Katie my training buddy) is doing it with me. I can't wait! Julie This is a really nice swim. I did it in 1999 and had a great time. The only bad part was a Canadian boat started playing "chicken" with me and my support boat. Turns out my boat captain was a good friend of the local Coast Guard commander and radioed for help. A Coast Guard boat stopped them and basically told them if they didn't want their boat impounded and them swimming back to Canada, they had better quit it. End of issue. There wasn't alot to see once the race started because the haze obscured most landmarks, that plus, you really only go past a few local islands, and not really close to them, in the 8 miles of the swim. It's not really a race, so you could wear a wet suit (water was 65 or so, I believe). We stayed at a placed called Willey's Farm B&B - very nice. Also had really good sandwiches at a place called "The Grateful Bread" and dinner at some place (can't remember the name) in Burlington run by the local culinary school. Enjoy. -LBJ