In the first three weeks of his epic bid to become the first man in history to swim around the entire Great British coastline, adventure athlete Ross Edgley has already battled extreme chaffing, fierce waves, sunburn and a disintegrating tongue.…
The annual Barmouth to Fort William 3 Peaks Yacht Race is always a great test of endurance, in both sailing and running, and this year the weather conditions for the race pushed teams to the limits to cope with the…
Finnish wakeboarder makes a world record with a consecutive run of over 10 hours, despite falling down after 4 hours How about attempting a world record in water sports just days after the ice has melted in the Baltic Sea?…
YOU can now experience the serenity of Snowdonia from a whole new perspective… with a moonlit paddleboard tour under cover of darkness. Nighttime Stand Up Paddleboard (SUP) expeditions are the brainchild of Sian Sykes, one of the UK’s leading SUP…
Avram Iancu has been nominated for the 2017 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year award by the World Open Water Swimming Association (WOWSA), based in California, USA. The winner will be announced on 1 January, 2018 close to midnight in California, with online…
It’s testament to the sport’s rapidly growing popularity that many of the leading wetsuit companies are now making swimrun specific wetsuits. You can read more about swimrun in the December 2017 issue of Outdoor Fitness. Colting Swimrun SR02 from…
On Saturday 10th March 2018, Glasgow is set to welcome the return of the world’s toughest open-water adventure race. The icy waters of the Forth & Clyde canal will see up to 600 open-water swimmers once again take on the…
After 89 days of swimming, the 41 year old, Avram Iancu, finished his epic 2,860 km swim on the Danube River on Saturday 16 September, arriving in the Romanian town of Sulina, on the Black Sea. He is the first…
For Greg Bailey and his half-brother Jude Massey, it’s 3,000 miles across the Atlantic. Now 27, he will set off from Gran Canaria, Spain, in January, and hopefully end up in Barbados six to 11 weeks later. But until late…
With so much stunning coastline in the UK it seems a shame not to make the most of it, but as anyone who gets involved in watersports knows, these activities often aren’t cheap. Aside from lessons to get you started…