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Open Water Swimming
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Open Water Swimming Events In Cornwall 2024
There are some amazing, scenic and challenging open water swimming events in Cornwall in 2024. Whether you’re thinking of doing one to set yourself a personal fitness challenge or to raise money for a worthwhile cause, there are whole number of swims, swimrun aquathlons, biathlons, triathlons and more scheduled around our beautiful coastline this year, and now is the time to secure your space on one!
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2023 Christmas Day Swims and Boxing Day Swims in Cornwall
Every Christmas thousands of people brave the cold waters of the Cornish coast to swim in the sea on Christmas Day, Boxing Day or New Year’s Day. But where to go, and on which day?
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Open Water Swimming Events In Cornwall 2023
If you’ve set yourself a swim-based challenge this year or are looking for a memorable open water swim race or event to look back on in years to come, Cornwall is a beautiful, suitable, and challenging place to do it. As in previous years, we’ve once again compiled a comprehensive list of all of the open water swimming events in Cornwall in 2023 (and one just over the border but still in-sight of Cornwall!)
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2022 Christmas and New Year’s Swims in Cornwall
Christmas is a time of traditions – carol singing, wreaths on doors, roast turkey and so on. But swimming in the sea? Yes, that’s a tradition for many here in Cornwall over the festive period.
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2022 Swim Specials – Weekly Group Sea Swimming
This summer we are replacing our weekly open water training swims with a new offer that we hope will allow more of you to access sea swimming beyond the bays and beaches in a supportive and social setting.
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OPEN WATER SWIMMING EVENTS IN CORNWALL 2022
If you’re looking to take part or compete in an open water swimming event or race this year, then we’ve once again compiled a comprehensive list of all of the planned open water swimming events in Cornwall in 2022. (We’ve also included a few great looking events over the border in Devon).
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2021 Christmas Swims in Cornwall
Getting in the sea on Christmas Day or Boxing Day is a wonderful tradition in Cornwall that has been gaining in popularity in recent years. What was once the preserve of the dedicated “daily dippers” who get in the sea every day of the year come rain or shine, has turned into a number of mass-participation events complete with festive fancy dress that raise money for charity – often the local surf lifesaving club who organise them.
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The Importance of Setting Swim Goals
It has been a long winter for some, and now that pools have opened up and the waters are warming, lots of us will be looking to reestablish our swim fitness.
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Summer 2020 Open Water Swim Specials
This summer we’re excited to be running a series of guided open water swim specials. These will be stand-alone events for small groups, designed to cater for those swimmers wanting to explore beyond the confines of the bays and experience swimming sections of otherwise inaccessible coastline with other like-minded swimmers.
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OPEN WATER SWIMMING EVENTS IN CORNWALL 2020
If you’re looking to take part or compete in an open water swimming event or race this year, then we’ve once again compiled a comprehensive list of all of the open water swimming events in Cornwall in 2020.
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Working With Swim Research
We’re incredibly proud and fortunate to have a fantastic group of businesses and organisations supporting the work that we do here at Cornish Rock Tors and Cornish Swim Tours. Swim Research are one of the businesses that we are lucky enough to be working with.
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Open Water Swimming Events in Cornwall 2019
If you’re interested in taking part in an open water swimming event or race this year, here’s our comprehensive list of open water swimming events in Cornwall in 2019. Some are pure swim events (with a choice of distances), whilst some are aquathlons, biathlons, or triathlons with additional run or run and cycle legs.
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Triathlon Training Tips
80% of New Year’s resolutions fail by February, so if you’re starting to falter on your health and fitness targets (shall we not mention “dry January”?!) and are at risk of becoming one of those statistics, then we’re here to help.
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The Benefits of Swimming in the Sea this Summer
Ask anybody who swims in the sea regularly if it’s good for you, and they’ll undoubtedly tell you that it is.