3 bottles and a rope

In 6 weeks I'll be heading over to England to accompany Lynne for her English channel swim. I have been given the honor / responsibility of managing her nutrition during the swim. Although I was well aware of the importance of this job long ago it seemed to hit me a week ago when I got to see the rope and bottles (pictured above).
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Like all of us, Lynne is heading to her event well educated and well trained. With this comes a nutrition plan for the swim. Basically, each of the three bottles above is tied to a yellow nylon rope which I will toss out to Lynne every 30minutes. The rope will be attached to me via a carabener. My signal for feeding time is likely to be waving of a TX flag. Once acknowledged I will toss the bottles to Lynne and she'll take what she needs. Each bottle is a different color and will contain different nutrition. A duct tape label on the side of each bottle indicates the mixture recipe which I will add to each bottle.
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Last Sunday Lynne and I went to the Quarry to practice tossing the bottles to her. This is when the importance of my job hit home. This is a big job and I am so excited to be part of her crew for this adventure. Watching your friends as they make such a huge endevour is quite amazing, especially when they envite you to take part.
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Tonight while Michael was talking to his mom on the phone, he was telling her about my trip to England. She asked him if there was a try out to get my job. This made me chuckle a bit as I envisioned the try-outs for crewing an English channel swim. Can you imagine a bunch of people down at the quarry, tossing these bottles out into the water to see who the best thrower is. Maybe we'd have a mixing competition to see who was best suited for making the nutrition bottles and keeping track of time.