That Liar-Bill Jolly

OK, so I think it is safe to say that Dave and I have been seriously lacking with this blog.
Yesterday we complete the 2nd open water swim. The first one was...I don't want to sound mean...but terrible. Let me clarify, I didn't realize it was terrible until after the 2nd swim.
The first swim we were nervous and had a lot of worries. For that reason we were sooooo stinkin slow. And every time I got close to the shore line I was sure that some snake, alligator, or sea monster was going to come out of the rock or log I was over and eat me. There were some of us sooo slow. Bill decided that the slow ones should get a 2 hour head start. Which I thought was a great idea, even though I didn't want to wake up that early.
so Martin, my mom, and I started our "4 mile " swim (4 mile in parenthesis will be explained) at 6 am. We hauled tail and did the "4 mile" swim in 4 hours and 10 minutes to finish a little over an hour before the other group who had a time of 3 hours and 27 minutes. When we got to the dam we were kind of down on ourselves because we were hoping to get in 4 miles a little under 4 hours so we could at least do a 50 minute mile. At lunch one of our support crew just happened to mention that where we swam from was a little beyond 5 miles to the dam. BILL JOLLY THAT LIAR. He just smiled. We had actually swam 5 miles.......5 miles in 4 hours and 10 min means we did our 50 minute mile. WOOOHOOO !!!! The other group averaging a 41 minute mile. All in all I am glad the Bill lied to us. It gave the confidence I need to know I can do it.