A Vansbrosimningen (3km) a Day Challenge

15 September, 2020 by Rykno in Training and tagged #envansbrosimningenomdag, #mastersswimming, #TheViking, #tyrsverige, #vansbrosimningen, #vidösternsimmet | Leave a comment

I understand that a lot of swimmers got upset this summer. I was more than upset. On April 29th I along with 13,000 other swimmers got an email that this years Vansbrosimningen was cancelled. It was to be expected that we would not be able to race since Sweden had just implemented a rule forbidding more than 500 people to gather. So to be honest I was not so upset about the race being cancelled, but I was upset about the way they informed us and the way they proceeded with the cancellation.

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2020 OW Virtual Grand Slam

15 September, 2020 by Rykno in Race and tagged #envansbrosimningenomdag, #mastersswimming, #millionmetrechallenge, #openwatervirtualgrandslam, #tyrsverige, #vansbrosimningen, #växjösimsällskapmasters | Leave a comment

Back in April as the world was shutting down I was contacted by Mark Johnston about an online event that he was putting together. It didn’t take more than a day or two and then the event was online, and I was registered and started to recruit others in Sweden and the US to join in.

The idea of being able to compete in a time when all IRL races were being postponed or canceled felt like a really good idea. Nothing beats the heat of the moment, but knowing someone somewhere else was trying to swim faster than me was going to have to be enough this summer.

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