Donner Lake repeats. Get real.

Karen Rogers is an animal. Training to swim the length of Big Blue, this week she did four repeats on Donner Lake. The Donner Lake Quad. Her report is here. An excerpt:

Yesterday I successfully did a quad crossing of Donner Lake. I am wondering if anyone else has done that. It was a great training swim for me. The gps read 11.04 miles, 5 hr 24 min. I think of that swim as the equivalent to half the length of Tahoe or the equal to the width of Tahoe.
I felt strong the entire swim. I started out with my swim partner, Rob, who did a double crossing. He was on a mission to move along as fast as he could. I stuck with him but was a little concerned about expending to much energy on the first two lengths. On the first lap we took a slightly longer course because we swam over to the south shore and had originally planned to hug the shore. Once we realized that there was only one boat on the lake we cut into the middle of the lake and swam straight down. First lap took us 1 hr 20 min. I had stopped to feed only once on the first lap. I should have stopped twice but Rob was moving quickly and wasn’t stopping to feed at all. We both took a quick feeding at the other end and started back. On the second lap I stopped to feed twice and we finished the lap at 1 hr 16 min. Way to negative split! I dropped Rob off, took in some nutrition and pushed off. For the first two laps the lake was so smooth, now the wind started to pick up….