Joella Baker, of Harmony, gives instructions Monday to participants of Swim to the Bridge at Lake Arthur in Moraine State Park. Baker said there are 114 swimmers in the 10th year of the event. Cary Shaffer/Butler Eagle

MUDDY CREEK TWP — More than 120 swimmers ages 7 to 70 tested their limits and lap times at the Swim to the Bridge Race on Lake Arthur at Moraine State Park on Monday evening.

The open-water swim at Porters Cove Boat Launch was a Get Fit Families event and allowed triathletes and swimmers from Western Pennsylvania to race the quarter-mile, half-mile, one-mile or "to the 422 bridge“ two-mile course.

Joella Baker, of Harmony, is organizer and founder of Get Fit Families. Her 25 volunteers served as lifeguards, timed or set up the course of orange and yellow buoys.

“This is is our 10th year,” she said. “I formed a relationship with Moraine when people were rogue swimming. They asked if I’d organize a swim every week.”

Get Fit Families was created by Baker following her diagnosis with Lupus in 2001. Its goal is for her to share her experience and help athletes achieve their goals.

Baker said some of her youth triathlon team members with Get Fit Families were hoping to improve their technique through the event.

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