My swim master attempts to be the oldest person to swim across Lake Ontario

Captain Colleen on my trial swim

My swim master (the SSO official on my swim crossing) Colleen Shields, who is also now a training companion, and all around nice person, attempted to be the oldest person to swim across Lake Ontario.  Colleen, 60 would have joined Annaleise, the youngest crosser, in the record books this summer.
Although the initial updates were very favourable, she was really moving for the 1st half, on track for a speed record to, but in the end with 10k to go called it quits due to exhaustion.


Colleen has been successful twice before, but I'm sure it was hard to pull out of this valiant attempt.  It's really great that she would continue with such ambitious goals at 60, and gives us something to look forward to as we age...
Congrats Colleen on a great effort!

One of the articles regarding Colleen's swim:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1251991--colleen-shields-dream-is-dashed-yet-again