Story · Swim
Ice mile
1.6 km
The swim cold-water swimmers measure themselves by.
One mile. In the real one, the water is 5 °C or colder.
- It stands on
- 1500 m
What it takes
Before you go.
- Recommended first
- The 1500 m swim
- Most weeks
- A swim of about 30 minutes, in 7 of the last 8 weeks
- Weekly training
- About 1 hour 45 minutes on average over 6 weeks, with an hour of running or riding counting as 30 minutes
- Swimming itself
- At least 1 hour a week
The story
The ice mile is one mile in water at 5 °C or colder. Here the distance is the challenge; the cold is the story. Source: International Ice Swimming Association.
The ladder
- 500 m/
- 1000 m/
- 1500 m/
- Ice mile