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Fisherman's way home
6 km swim / 3 km walk or run
Swim to shore, then walk for help.
A 6 km swim, then 3 km on foot.
- It stands on
- 5000 m, 4000 m swim / 20 km run
What it takes
Before you go.
- Recommended first
- The 5000 m swim
- Most weeks
- Swimming and running, in 7 of the last 8 weeks
- Long sessions
- A swim of 2 hours, each 4 times in the last 10 weeks, at least once in the last 5 weeks
- Weekly training
- About 5 hours in total on average over 6 weeks, with an hour of riding counting as 30 minutes
- Taper
- An easier week before the event week
The story
In 1984 an Icelandic fisherman swam about 6 km in 5 °C water after his boat capsized, then walked about 3 km barefoot over lava to raise the alarm. Source: Keatinge et al. 1986, BMJ.
The ladder
- 5 km/
- 500 m/
- 10 km/
- 1000 m/
- 10 mile/
- 1500 m/
- 1000 m swim / 5 km run/
- 1900 m/
- 2500 m/
- 3000 m/
- 3800 m/
- 3000 m swim / 10 km run/
- 3000 m swim / 15 km run/
- 5000 m/
- 4000 m swim / 20 km run/
- Fisherman's way home