I completed my first open water swim. In a wetsuit! I fit into one! hahaha! I was nervous about that. ;) It was incredible though! It had been stormy all day, so we weren't sure that we were going to go out and swim. (We being my tri team.) But the storm cleared just in time for us to head out to Lindon Beach. It was absolutely stunning out there! The cloud formations were simple incredible! Big, white puffy clouds mixed with low, rolling, dark clouds. The sun was shining behind a few clouds and sun rays were bursting out from behind them. The light was pure golden and made everything it touched glow. Over to the east, in front of the mountains was a full, bright, double rainbow! The tall grasses framed the lake and it was just picturesque!

We marked out where we were going to swim to, and I was completely nervous! It was so far! They told me, since it was my first time in the open water that maybe I should just swim back and forth in the bay. I considered it, but being me, I had to prove I could do it. So we took off. The mud at the bottom was so squishy! I don't even want to think about all the stuff I was walking through! The water wasn't too cold. A LOT better than I thought it would be. Until I bent my knees and let the water come up to my shoulders. Once it started seeping through the zipper in the back of my wetsuit, it felt COLD! But it didn't last long. Yay for climatizing! I attempted to swim with my face in the water. But it was so murky I couldn't see where I was going. So I stuck with keeping my head out of the water. The closer we got to the buoy we were heading towards, the further it seemed to drift! But we eventually made it! Now for the swim back! There were two other women who were doing their first open water swim too. One of them started having an anxiety attack! But she made it to the buoy. Once there, though, she was having a really hard time breathing and just wanted to get out of the water. So Kyle, the owner of SBR Sports (the triathlon gear store that's sponsoring my team) and McKenzie (one of the women who started the team) helped her get back to the water. The current had picked up and was helping push us towards the shore. That was nice! :) A huge pelican was flying overhead. I'd never seen a pelican like that before! At least outside of Tracy Aviary or the zoo! lol. Another bird was floating in the water and squaking at us. It was probably mad we scared the fish away. haha!

Eventually we made it back to shore. McKenzie and Kyle estimated that it was about 1200 meters that we had just swam. I have never swam that far before! I was so excited!!! I just wish I had brought my camera to take a picture of how the lake looked. It really was just amazing. Especially considering it was yucky Utah Lake! ;)