Isn a 10K openwater swim hardcore?
OK, OK. Now tell me about the swimming events themselves. Isn’t a 10 km swim pretty hardcore? A 10 km in open water swim is reasonably hardcore. There are even harder-core swims: 25 km swim in Tampa, 12 km Key West swim, 26 km Manhattan Island Swim and of course the 32 km English Channel. But with the 10 km you are getting into a small group of people willing to swim this far. A fast swimmer (ex college but not at world class form) will take around 2 hours and 30 minutes with a more typical swimmer taking 3-4 hours. We have a time limit of 5 hours, after that the rescue boat pulls you out.
