Coach Ben and Tim raced the Sprint distance at the 1000 Lakes Otillo in Germany last month, here’s how they got on.

For those of us a little crazy SwimRun is a race format with multiple runs and swims. There is no transition zone so everything you start with you have to finish with. Which means you swim in you trainers and run in your wetsuit. Each section is not particularly long but the distance does add up, so the sprint is nearly 17km in total.

We had fantastic weather for this years race and about 200 people took part. The next day the long race had even more people, some of whom did both events. Unlike masters swimming there are no age groups so at I was very pleased to finish 12th male.

There are some great pictures on flickr here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/otillorace/albums/72157710896895842

I highly recommend having a go.

Ben