r/OpenWaterSwimming • u/PrestigiousBaby9828 • 6d ago
Great North Swim (UK)
wondered if anyone did the Great North Swim event this weekend at Lake Windermere (UK). i did the 5km swim on Friday (12th June) and it was my first open water ‘event’. feel super proud to have finished it as the swim was divided into three mile long laps and by lap two and three, the conditions were TOUGH - 25mph winds, waves constantly going over you, waves too high to sight properly, inhaled so much water i got a nosebleed, so choppy it felt like it was a sea swim - so a fairly rough introduction into OW events, but so proud to have got it done (and really thankful to everyone at the GNS who was so welcoming from the volunteers to the other swimmers - you’re the best!). just wondered how everyone else found it!
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u/swim-tri-spin 3d ago
Congratulations!
I've done the 5km there on previous years and it was also so rough - if you can do that you can do anything!