Lake George Tracking TODAY

Here we go,

Lake George MarathonSwim. 

Start Saturday: September 17, that's TODAY in the afternoon.

We will be swimming through the night, send light weather thoughts, everyone will be getting water (crew included), just do not want thunderstorms, but that is a low probability, fingers crossed for just light rain.

Okidoki,

here's the tracking information, and this should be fun,

Hopefully you will see on the screen all the swimmers, color coded by pod:

I am in the ORANGE pod, we should be starting at 3:30 pm.

SPOT Trackers.

Each team will be issued a GPS tracker. 

Each tracker has a unique URL (web address). 

This is supposed to my personal track if you just want see my track.

http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?lId=0OKBnFJRkptjKoyPM72F9s8nI6FbM5l8s

Tracking Software

This is really cool: hope this works

The LGM has contracted with the Marathon Swimming Federation's Evan Morrison to collect all the individual GPS tracks into one web page:

CLICK on   http://track.rs/lakegeorge.  

All 27 swimmers/teams will have a symbol on a map. 

Users can mouse over the symbols and a name of the swimmer or team will pop up. 

They will be color coded by pod, We are ORANGE with a different symbol for teams and solos.  

Bookmark this web address and share it with anyone. 

For your friends and family who may be meeting you at the finish, our finish tent will be outfitted with a TV that will be displaying the locations. We are excited, and hopeful, that this will work!

Conditions for Today, Sept. 17

Hey, at least there's no wind against the tide to deal with.

The water is cooling off, and with two cold nights coming up we are estimating a water temperature of about 70F by Saturday night. It was gorgeous, but dark out there this morning at 5 AM!

Winds are forecast to be 6-7 mph out of the south. This is not preferred for a north-south transit, but not enough for us to reverse the course. By Saturday night our beautiful full moon will be obscured by clouds. Temperatures at night will be a balmy 60F. Rain showers are likely during the night. Crew must bring rain gear, warm socks, and a change of clothes; between the breeze and the rain, it will feel cold.

Conditions are not predicted to change much all day Sunday--light southerly winds, a chance of showers, and temperatures above normal in the 70's. There is a "slight chance" of thunderstorms all day on Sunday. There is a higher chance of thunderstorms Sunday night when a cold front pushes out the warm weather. We are watching this but it currently looks like it will be well after our event.

That's it!  

Thank you for continued support and interest.