Swimathon - have you done one and how long did it take you?

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I want to enter the swimathon this year but not sure which distance to do. I swim once a week for about 40mins and I'm quite a strong swimmer (used to swim a lot as a child). But the thought of doing 200 lengths for the 5k is a bit daunting

Has anyone done the 5k or 2.5k and how long did it take you?

Thanks

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anyone?

I entered with 2 other colleagues several years back. Unfortunatly I can't remember exactly how far we swam (think it was 60ish lengths each) and it didn't take us as long as we thought. In fact have a feeling we finished within the hour. Could be wrong.

Maybe enter as a team? It would encourage you along, esp if you reward yourself at the end as we did, with a curry

I've done it. I do it most years. Recently I've done it with one or two others. So we swim about a mile each. I've once done the 5k. YOu need to train for the 5k quite seriously. I did it in something two hours, 10 minutes.

Thanks!

I think I'm going to go for the 5k, although the session is only open for 2hrs at my pool so hope I make it!!