In mid-August the Seattle Department of Parks & Recreation puts on the Emerald City Swim.
Seward Park
This is a one mile swim in Lake Washington at Seward Park. As I’d discovered during the Danskin Triathlon in 2009, the water off Seward Park has a lot of seaweed. But I digress.
This is one of the last swims of the season – Green Lake & Emerald City are nice bookends to the summer. I was delighted to find that Montrel, the instructor from my spring lifeguarding course, was officiating. The swimming community seems smaller when I am continually running into the same people at races and pools all over the metro area.
I finished in a respectable 33:15. Someday I’ll get that mile down to 30 minutes…
Columbia City Bakery was the chosen post-race breakfast spot, however there was some sort of local parade happening on Rainier Ave which complicated things a bit. I actually came to regret not riding my bike the 10+ miles to the race.
