Big Open Water Swims on Saturday

Richard Weinberger, having finished the Open Water World Championship 10km swim in Barcelona in 5th place, after making his life much harder by missing a buoy halfway through the race, is looking for redemption on Saturday when he races the World Championship 25km race.   He will be looking to win his first World Championship medal, and is excited to swim his first race of this distance.  UVic Alum Greg Streppel won the World Championship gold medal in the 25km race once before, and Richard is looking to follow in his footsteps.  Follow Richard's live splits on omegatiming.com.  The race starts at 8:00 AM local time (11PM Victoria Time), and last more or less 5 hours.

Aimeson King raced the 10km open water swim in Lac St.-Jean today, finishing 6th in a field of 12.  Aimeson was happy with his swim today, and now his focus is on the legendary 32km swim crossing Lac St.-Jean starting in less than 2 days, at 8AM ET Saturday morning.  Temperatures near the start of this race are expected to be ~15 degrees Celcius, and for most of the race ~19 degrees Celcius.  The combination of these frigid temperatures, mixed with the grueling length (6.5-8 hours depending on conditions and speed) and intensity of the swim, make it one of the hardest races in the world.  Aimeson is hoping to finish the race in a healthy state first and foremost, and do his best against the field while doing it.  Send him your warm thoughts, and follow his progress on a live feed, which can be found here: http://traversee.qc.ca/en/on-the-web/webdiffusion/