The Birthday Tradition Continues!
In December, the Masters fitness swimmers from the Cole Center Family YMCA celebrated 60-year old birthdays for Greg Clarke and Patrick Dwyer. The group has a tradition to swim a 50s (two lengths of the pool) on birthdays; a 60th birthday means 60 x 50s! Patrick has been swimming with the Kendallville team since 1997, and Greg since the beginning of the group in 1985. They both are also competitve in Masters swim meets. Teammate Cindy Miller notes, "We swim our 50s intervals on 1:00. We also had some visitors from Ft. Wayne join us."
Left to right: Rich Cater and his two young sons (Ft. Wayne), Larry Wolf (Cole Center YMCA), Greg Clarke (Cole Center YMCA), Patrick Dwyer (Cole Center YMCA), Phil Sueltzer (Ft. Wayne), and Cindy Miller (Cole Center YMCA).
"The 50s were grueling for me," Cindy says, "but Patrick, Greg, Phil, and Rich were really fast and had lots of time to rest!" She also notes that more people showed up for the birthday party at her house after the swim.