Open water swimming is different than doing it in a smaller space because there is nowhere to stop and rest, and the distance you have to go is much greater. It’s important to prepare for this. If you don’t you could find yourself in dire trouble. Drowning is a concern but you can swim this way if you are careful and if you train correctly for it. It can be great exercise and can make you feel great, though, if you can do it.

Key Takeaways:

• On giving open water swimming a try, Nickolas Reilly admitted to a moment of panic on realizing that there was no handrail to grab in the event of overexertion.
• Reilly called his baptismal entrance into the cordoned off portion the Victoria Dock, not a baptism of fire, but of “cold, murky water.”
• Reilly had prepped for his open water inauguration, by swimming in the pool, where he had achieved a personal best of 46 minutes a mile.

“In the end, I managed to complete the 400m circuit in 15 minutes, which means I’m on the way to achieving my target of completing a mile within an hour.”

Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2017/08/29/swim-serpentine-tackling-open-water-swimming-for-the-first-time-ever-6876872/