Angie Swims

UPDATE 2/27/2022: I'm planning to repeat this swim in 2022 using Marathon Swimmers Federation guidelines for documentation, so this time it will be official! For more info visit this link to Everything Lower Willamette  and LowerWillametteSwim.com . Currently, planning on July 30, 2022. If you or anyone you know would like to help out, please comment or contact me otherwise. 💖 It's taking some processing and time to sit with the events of last Saturday, 8/21/21. A lot happened, and nothing happened. Let's see. Where to begin? *Most photos are at the end.  Training for the swim was the easy part. I enjoy long swims and logging miles in the morning before class, and digging into the day's tasks.  Crossing under the railroad bridge in Milwaukie. Photo: Amanda Cross  Organizing was a challenge. I decided early on not to have a support boat and instead do the swim with kayak support and someone onshore in a car acting similarly to how a support boat would. I called th...

Howdy! It's been a minute...and about 193,463m (but who's counting??) since I last updated the blog. I guess you could say I've been busy. Since June, I've completed my last semester of didactic coursework for my OTD, swam another personal Portland Bridge Swim, and made 4-mile morning swims a fixture in my week. I've also kinda sorta started training for and then talked myself into a 24.3-mile swim. Oops. It'll be on August 21st and aims to raise some $$ for Human Access Project and Black Swimming Initiative. More about that here: https://sites.google.com/view/angieswims-swim-a-thon2021 I've had the please of swimming with new friends and old over the last two months and logged more miles of smiles than I can count (Okay, that's a lie, I totally count every single one!) I'll fill in the highlights starting with the most recent. Tracy returned to the North West! I drove up to Seattle last Sunday and spent two days with her swimming at Alki. The wa...

 Oh my. It's been almost four months since my last post. Don't worry, I haven't even gone four days  without swimming. There has just been so very much going on. School really takes over. I've started reviewing for boards (for September 2022). Now that it's June, I'm in my final term of didactic coursework before beginning my clinical fieldwork rotations. Each rotation is 12 weeks with 4 weeks at the end of each semester dedicated to capstone research. I know, it sounds  like I'm making excuses for not updating the blog more, but I say these are explanations .   The water has heated up quite a bit. Currently, I'm swimming at least two miles every time I get in the river with (typically) long swims on the weekend. We've branched out with COVID restrictions easing and folks getting vaccinated, so group swims are back on the table! Yay! The most memorable one so far was an eight-person swim from Milwaukie to Sellwood on a Thursd...