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An Island Swim to remember
for Ian McCloy family and friends
Randy
Pascal
2019-07-15
Summers in Sudbury can be pretty darn special.
No need to convince those who gathered
on the shores of Lake Nepahwin for the 36th edition of
the Sudbury Fitness Challenge Island Swim, the 17th time
the event has been staged in memory of Ian McCloy.
The water temperature, Sunday morning,
could not have been more perfect, with nary the tiniest
wave in sight, and a gentle breeze blowing that provided
just the right amount of refreshment to cool off all those
exiting the water, their race distance completed.
“When I first left for university,
I thought that I would never be coming back here,”
suggested 23 year-old former Lockerby Composite and Sudbury
Laurentian Swim Club swimmer Kelly Hotta. “But having
been in London and Toronto now, I would definitely come
back. Until you leave it and experience life in a bigger
city, only then do you miss it.”
“You miss having a lake two minutes
from wherever you are in the city. It makes you want to
be more active,” added the Western University graduate,
who has just completed her first year of four at the Canadian
Memorial Chiropractic College in Toronto.
Despite being extremely limited in terms
of her pre-race training, Hotta placed second only to
older brother Jordan in the two mile event, with Aislinn
Munro and Kelly Thompson a little further back in third
and fourth respectively. “I took a pretty big hiatus
when I finished at Western two years ago,” said
Hotta. “I needed a break.”
“I swam a few times over the course
of the past few weeks, since I've been home, six times
maybe.” Still, it's difficult for athletes who have
raced in an ultra competitive setting for many, many years,
to suddenly relinquish that side of their personality
completely.
“I was supposed to swim with Jordan
the whole way, but he left me behind after 200 metres,”
Hotta suggested with a laugh. “I just knew that
as soon as I got here, I was going to be competitive with
it. It was annoying to watch Jordan pulling away from
me, but I'm not really in the shape to be super competitive
at this point.”
“I've lost a lot of my shoulder
strength, so that was my downfall, but for not really
swimming, I'm pretty happy with it.”
With expectations that were substantially
more tempered, Sudbury Fitness Challenge mainstay Karen
Broughton could relate to the dichotomy that Hotta was
feeling. “I like participating and my athletic background
is low key,” suggested the 56 year old native of
Ottawa, who has enthusiastically called Sudbury home for
the past 15 years or so, as both she and her husband moved
to the area for work.
“My swim today was better than I
expected. I had a very busy spring and I really missed
a lot of swimming, so I was pretty happy with you it went.
I guess that I am just competitive enough that I pay attention
to whether I'm improving or not, is this year better than
last year. That's part of this for me, but I'm definitely
not competing against others, really.”
A basketball and volleyball player through
high-school, Broughton would play one year of varsity
hoops while attending Guelph University, working her way
through to more individualized athletic pursuits later
in life, including the two elements that converged on
this day.
“I joined masters swimming about
five years ago,” said Broughton, alluding to the
Laurentian Masters Swim Club that organizes the Ian McCloy
Island Swim each and every year, under the stewardship
of Laura Young. “I don't compete in other masters
swim events, other than the Fitness Challenge. I just
made a New Year's resolution one year to try and do all
of the Fitness Challenge events.”
And through it all, she noted a very common
bond, year round, whether she is heading to the pool at
Laurentian University, or out on the cross-country ski
trails at Walden Nordic in Naughton. “A lot of what
I do, I do because there's a big group of us that really
enjoy doing it together,” said Broughton.
“It's way more motivating to get
out and enjoy yourself with friends than to try and self-motivate.”
Self-motivation, however, was not an issue
at all when it came to distance runner Paul McCloy, one
of several family members who made the trip to Sudbury
this year. Representing Canada in the 10,000 metre race
at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, the now 55 year
old Calgary resident still holds the national 10 km road
race record, posting a time of 28:17 in Florida back in
1987.
One of seven siblings in the family, and
four years younger than his older brother Ian, Paul McCloy
noted that things kind of aligned themselves nicely for
something of a family reunion in Sudbury this year. “Usually
someone from the family is here every year,” he
said.
“My two sisters in Toronto have
been up a number of times, my brother in the New York
area has been here a couple of times.” This year,
however, was special, with May McCloy on hand for the
festivities, taking it all on while relaxing on a chair
on the beach, the family matriarch just a smidge shy of
her 90th birthday. “I don't know if mom had actually
been up since Ian was working here,” said Paul.
“But it kind of worked out this
year. She lives at home, out east (in Newfoundland, where
the family is from), with my sister, and they are actually
having the house done, so they had to clear out for a
couple of weeks this summer.”
With a handful of the McCloy clan having
pursued a variety of athletic goals at a national level
and beyond, it was no surprise that Ian would have become
so involved in the Sudbury sports community, shortly after
moving to the area and accepting a job with the City as
an engineer back in the mid 1990's.
“He was always active, busy looking
after things, and very competitive,” recalled Paul.
“And he was always into life-long swimming.”
Truth be told, on a glorious summer day,
on the shores of one of the hundreds of lakes in this
area, there really isn't anything better.
Following are results for the various
distances from the 2019 Ian McCloy Island Swim:
Two Mile Swim
1st - Jordan Hotta - 43:12 (M - 20-29)
2nd - Kelly Hotta - 44:32 (F - 20-29)
3rd - Aislinn Munro - 47:04 (F - 13-16)
4th - Kelly Thompson - 48:13 (M - 17-19)
5th - Tony Staalstra - 49:36 (M - 50-59)
6th - Sara McIlraith - 52:04 (F - 40-49)
7th - Paul Duhamel - 52:14 (M - 50-59)
8th - Noah Rioux - 53:27 (M - 13-16)
9th - Ginny Denomme - 53:39 (F - 40-49)
10th - Neel Mathur - 55:12 (M - 40-49)
11th - Monika Haring - 55:16 (F - 30-39)
12th - Clinton Lahnalampi - 55:22 (M - 40-49)
13th - Julie Falvo - 55:48 (F - 30-39)
14th - Laura Young - 56:06 (F - 50-59)
15th - Ursula McCloy - 56:32 (F - 50-59)
16th - Ray Wiss - 1:01:55 (M - 60-69)
17th - Griffin Whorley - 1:04:53 (M - 13-16)
18th - Tony Sundholm* - 1:28:49 (M - 60-69)
* this year's race marked the 26th time Sundholm has competed
in the race, 22 times completing the 2-mile distance
One Mile Swim
1st - Tamara Flannigan - 24:06 (F - 40-49)
2nd - Genna Howard - 26:44 (F - 30-39)
3rd - Laihna Munro - 28:38 (F - 12 & under)
4th - Richard Coté - 29:26 (M - 60-69)
5th - Lucia Salmaso - 30:36 (F - 12 & under)
6th - Jess Lonsdale - 30:51 (F - 30-39)
7th - Abbey Krawczuk - 31:00 (F - 13-16)
8th - Scott Hopkins - 31:05 (M - 40-49)
9th - Joshua Reid - 31:39 (M - 40-49)
10th - Neil Phipps - 31:43 (M - 40-49)
11th - Colin Ward - 32:03 (M - 40-49)
12th - Stacey Trottier - 32:08 (F - 40-49)
13th - Cora McCloy - 32:10 (F - 50-59)
14th - Todd Withers - 32:16 (M - 50-59)
15th - Karen Broughton - 32:28 (F - 50-59)
16th - Joe Lonsdale - 33:09 (M - 30-39)
17th - Carol Mourre - 33:33 (F - 40-49)
18th - Suzanne Halet - 34:18 (F - 30-39)
19th - Mitch Trottier - 34:26 (M - 40-49)
20th - Paul Guerin - 35:26 (M - 40-49)
21st - Linda Tenhunen - 37:52 (F - 60-69)
22nd - Darren Kleven - 38:06 (M - 50-59)
23rd - Jason Chenard - 38:11 (M - 30-39)
24th - Robert Marcolini - 38:55 (M - 50-59)
25th - Jill Twora - 38:59 (F - 30-39)
26th - Bruce Holson - 40:43 (M - 60-69)
27th - Jeffrey Cayen - 45:15 (M - 40-49)
28th - Susan Dittus - 58:05 (F - 40-49)
29th - Janet Kay - 58:07 (F - 50-59)
500m Swim
1st - Norah Morrissey - 10:13 (F - 12 & under)
2nd - Dorothy Dong - 10:49 (F - 12 & under)
3rd - Jayda Hartley - 11:04 (F - 12 & under)
4th - Kaeden Ward - 11:47 (M - 13-16)
5th - Donna Smrek - 14:08 (F - 50-59)
6th - Mariane Larose - 14:35 (F - 50-59)
7th - Helen Bobiwash - 15:12 (F - 50-59)
8th - Mike Banks - 15:39 (M - 40-49)
9th - Paul McCloy - 16:23 (M - 50-59)
10th - Karen Renout - 16:58 (F - 60-69)
11th - Maureen Moustgaard - 32:45 (F - 70-79)
Kids 100m Swim
1st - Sophia Salmaso - 3:01 (F)
2nd - Julian Luoma - 3:42 (M)
3rd - Joe Zito - 3:35 (M)
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