Jacob's Ladder and Lake Lanier Farewell

            This morning was a balmy 19 degrees, however cloudy. This morning’s workout was scheduled to be the infamous ladder workout, except twelve times instead of 8 times. The workout started with a mild cross wind, which decided to dramatically increase as the pieces went on. The session went on pretty well, with Andrew Boui putting himself prominently in the lead for the dolphin award. However, he was not the only one too score a point there, with Kirsten and Kathleen taking a swim at the start of one piece. The workout had to be called off after 8 pieces due to the white capping wind at the location where we were doing pieces. We did the remaining pieces as 4 x 25 stroke starts, not quite as fun as the ladder pieces, but the weather was getting real bad.

            Just before lunch, Beth left  for a flight out of Atlanta this afternoon and needed to head for the airport. We wish her a safe trip home!

            Lunchtime garnered a little extra excitement today when it was announced that this was to be the last meal at the university cafeteria here. Suffice to say there was a bit of a rush to the ice cream machine and the cherry coke dispenser (yes, they have cherry coke here).

            After lunch, during the quick break before the planned second row, I found out that we are currently under a tornado watch. Seems like a real good time to head out for another row! As I told the others, it’s ok, it’s only a watch, if we get a warning then we’re having fun.

            We got back to the lake for the second row, however, the wind proved too much (we’re talking massive whitecaps at the dock) for us to be able to go out. Instead, we cleaned the boats up and then packed up the oars. After this, we decided to go for a two mile run around a local park. Followed by a quick (and by quick I mean 45 minute) and pitiful game of volleyball, where we all enjoyed Matt’s mad skills with serving the volleyball. As well as a general lack of coordination from everyone. After a while we decided to call it quits there and headed for the hotel.

            The dinner plan involves heading off to the ‘Monkey Barrel” restaurant in ‘historic Gainesville – none of us are quite sure of the historic aspect of this town, but maybe we’re all just ignorant. Or maybe it’s a plea for tourists, there is a large steam train on blocks besides one of the roads here, so maybe something to do with the railroad.

            Tomorrow, we head back up to London, it’s expected that there could be really high winds as well as some lake effect snows once we get to more northern Ohio/Michigan/Ontario. So that could prove to be problematic. Hope for the best!

            Now, you may have noticed that posts occasionally had a “Dolphin Points Tally” at the bottom. Today, the Dolphin award was presented. The award consisted of a set of pink with polka dots water wings from Target. Andrew Boui was this year’s recipient, with a score of 7 flips throughout the week. The final points tally can be found below.

Dolphin Points Final Tally:

1)      Andrew Boui : 7

2)      Kristen Bujnowski: 2

2)Kathleen Morrison: 2

3)Andrew McGuire: 1

4)Jill Moffat: 1

5)Calin Deguefe: 0.5

6)Jerome VanLee: 0.5

Summary: Andrew Boui went swimming five times. Kristen and Kathleen went swimming in the double (a win tech double), so it was decided to give them two points each. Andrew McGuire and Jill each took a swim from the single. Calin and Jerome ¾ flipped their double on the dock, they didn’t officially go swimming but it was very close and it was on the dock; so it was officially decided that half a point each would be awarded. No one else got wet.