Just get across the lake, swimming the best way I can!
Since moving to Ithaca in 2006, I have admired women swimmin' for Hospicare. I thought to myself, "Someday, I will swim across Cayuga Lake". This year is the year I will make that dream come true. I began swim lesson last year with an amazing swim instructor. I learned to relax and swim through the water not against it.
I will be swimming in honor of my grandfather who went in to Hospicare service just before he passed away last summer. Less than a month after he passed, I would have had my first swim across Cayuga Lake but it got canceled due to high winds. Now a year later, I am determined to swim peacefully across the lake without fear or worry about timing. The first time is just to prove to myself and my family that I can do something for the first time ever without letting worry get in my way.