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This past weekend the masters team the fighting manatees took me with them to Key West to do the Swim around Key West. Mark was still on vacation so he couldn't come to the swim with me. I had a great time and it was lots of fun. I even ran into one of the guys that I swim with in New York. The fighting manatees took 3 teams of 6 people down. My team, team 2, got third place and it took us about 6 hours. we beat team one by about 4 min. There was a small rivalry between team 1 and 2 and because both teams were so close for the entire 6 hours it made the swim even more fun. Team one consisted of Bob Rich a billionaire who owns Rich foods and is one of the biggest donors for the swim team but the big threat on the team,Gary Hall Sr. is who we were worried about. Then Bob Rich flew his niece down from collage to swim on the team as well as one of his friends that was training for the Iron man. Team wasn't worried, even when Gary Hall Sr. showed up in a laser suit for the event. One of video on YouTube is of Jon Olson the Olympian on our team grabbing Gary's legs during the second leg of the race. There is a link to the map of where I swam. The swim is done as a relay so I swam a 30 min leg, then a 20 min leg, then a series of 5-8 min sprint swims. we had the slower swimmers doing anything from 5-2 min. I swam the first mile and a half for my first swim and then somewhere around mile 4 for my second big swim. I think I was in the water about 2 hours and I got to start and finish the race. I had a great time. Then I was even in the paper this past week! For participating in the event I got a Medal and for getting third I received a Conch Shell!!!

After the first 30 min leg.