Story · Swim
Cadets' eight
8 km
The sea swim every first-year cadet takes on.
Swim 8 km. The distance the cadets swim.
- It stands on
- Grettir's swim
What it takes
Before you go.
- Recommended first
- Grettir's swim
- Weekly distance
- About 8 km of swimming a week on average over 6 weeks
- Long swim
- 3.2 km, at least once in the last 6 weeks. Finishing Grettir's swim counts
- Taper
- An easier week before the event week
The story
Every summer the first-year cadets of Japan's National Defense Academy swim 8 km in the sea off Hashirimizu. About 340 of them did it in 2024. It takes around five hours. Source: National Defense Academy of Japan.
The ladder
- Ice mile/
- Swim to Antarctica/
- Between the monsters/
- Across the Cold War/
- Hellespont/
- Plum Pudding/
- Grettir's swim/
- Cadets' eight