1Cold Water Swimming Championships
Prove you've got the true grit of a freshwater fish at the festival of cold water swimming.
A mainstay on the wacky race calendar, this biennial event is for swimmers willing to get their kit off and plunge into freezing cold water in midwinter. The race includes a freestyle dash and a traditional breastroke race, or you can enter as a relay team and delay the onset of pneumonia. With wetsuits banned and temperatures dropping to 1°C, The championships require a healthy doze of eccentricity and skin as thick as a seal, but you do get to reward yourself with a hot toddy in the Budgie Smuggler's Arms afterwards.