Swimrun Challenge | GTN's Lake District Swim Run Adventure

Swim run is an increasingly popular sport, and we thought as we were in the Lake District we'd treat ourselves to an adventure! Join Heather and Mark for a lot of fun, as they take on the fells and lakes including Derwentwater as they Swimrun to Keswick!

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Music - licensed by Epidemic Sound:
ES_Backroads - Hunting for Sunsets
ES_Bass Drop - SFX Producer
ES_Bass Reverb - SFX Producer
ES_Birds After The Rain - Organic Nature Sounds
ES_Black Nails - Naked Pleasure
ES_Blizzard Forest 3 - SFX Producer
ES_Blizzard Forest 5 - SFX Producer
ES_Crunch Celery 6 - SFX Producer
ES_Crunch Crackers 4 - SFX Producer
ES_Giza - Ebb & Flod
ES_Gun Under My Pillow - Naked Pleasure
ES_Hit To Whoosh Dark - SFX Producer
ES_In the Fields - Shiver Disk
ES_LFE Impact Bass - SFX Producer
ES_Low Brass Hollywood Clusters 2 - Magnus Ringblom
ES_Monkey Throw Monkey - Arc De Soleil
ES_Mr Know-It-All - Pip Mondy
ES_No Ordinary Life - Rockin' For Decades
ES_Notes to Self - Gavin Luke
ES_PREL Whoosh Slow 9 - SFX Producer
ES_Pressure (Instrumental Version) - Candelion
ES_Raindrops On A Rainy Day - Organic Nature Sounds
ES_Riser Metallic - SFX Producer
ES_Runaway Deer - Arc De Soleil
ES_Sheep Baa 5 - SFX Producer
ES_Sitting By The Fire - Organic Nature Sounds
ES_Space Age Girl Machine (Instrumental Version) - Conditional
ES_Swoosh 18 Short - Jon Bjork
ES_The One That Got Me - Rockin' For Decades
ES_Trying to Escape - Arc De Soleil
ES_Uplifter - Conditional
ES_Water Drip 5 - SFX Producer
ES_Wood Creak 13 - SFX Producer
ES_Wood Creak 14 - SFX Producer
ES_Wood Creak 29 - SFX Producer
ES_All the Way Up - Rune Dale
ES_Countdown to the End - Max Anson
ES_Deconstructing the Empire - Christian Andersen
ES_Dragon King - Jo Wandrini
ES_Drift - Molife
ES_Ground Level Zero - DEX 1200
ES_Into Wilderness - Placidic
ES_Last Minute (Instrumental Version) - Moulins
ES_Mountain Quail - Dust Follows
ES_Summer In November - Sindrandi
ES_Wanderland - Christian Andersen

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Have you ever done a Swimrun? Where did you do yours? Let us know 👇

[HeavenlyDivine]

One of your best videos yet. To the video production, the music, the views, and most importantly seeing the pure joy on your faces makes this such a fun video to watch. Will definitely be looking into more swim runs from now on :)

[physiostew]

Great video Mark and Heather!!! Welcome to my back yard!!! I live in Keswick and get to play on this everyday. Might be worth just mentioning that you can’t swim in all the lakes in the Lake District - Thirlmere which you nearly swam in is supposed to be a no go. Also if your transferring between bodies of water you might want to have a look into biosecurity (so that you don’t transfer blue green algae between lakes). If you do the frog graham (the ultimate swim run on my bucket list) you need to have separate wetsuits for each of the swims. It’s part of the reason there isn’t many swim runs in the Lake District. Nice work on the Helvellyn Tri!!!! It’s brutal!!! Triathlon x half for me next year hopefully!!!

[dimrub]

What an incredible scenery and such an amazing adventure (and of course, it doesn't count as one if you don't get off route at least once).

[robg]

Really enjoyed that. Thanks for the video. Derwent is a brilliant place to swim👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🏃‍♂️🏊‍♂️

[jaydesimone]

Amazing scenery! I'd love to visit the Lake District someday. And how perfect...Heather Fell with heather on a fell...

Well done! Swim run is so much fun! And in (a proper) summer, diving into the water and being able to cool off after a run is bliss!

[kamucho]

The paths are notoriously bad, boggy and indistinct on the central ridge between Thirlmere and watendlath. Great video and amazing adventure!

[CherylMuir]

The Lake District looks so awesome on film. Beautiful job. Love, a local xx

[craigelliott]

So much Heather and so many Fells. Don't (Threl) Fall

[craigelliott]

the lakes on days like you had are my favourite. sun just peeking through. cool day out you 2!

[randomnameindeed]

Nice! Lovely scenery. What a way to spend a day, gotta love this! 😃 Although minus points for the pull buoy and the paddles, Mark 😝 Just kidding!

[btmzi]

I somehow missed this one back in September, but I'm glad I found it today. What a marvelous video. The scenery and video were stunning, but I also appreciate the approach of just having a grand adventure. Many of us, myself included, get too caught up in races or events and forget about the pure joy of using our fitness to go explore and just have fun. Well done!

[adrianmayhew]

So funny to watch with the wind! Well done 👍👍👍👍

[michaelhardie]

Reminded me of Ross Edgley and his adversity training in the Lake District. Great work and thanks for taking us along.

[vagrant]

Brilliant video. That looked brutal but your smiles were fantastic. You make the most of everything. Well done!!!

[linamora]

Wow 😮 so much fun guys! Thank you so much for sharing with us. What a nice scenery! I definitely don’t see that in Texas 😭

[JamesMartin-glgg]

Well done to you both, first open swim was in a lake near Snowden with only trunks in October, I was in the forces and told we had to do this 400 meter swim in the local baths, fun in the lake.

[warlock]

Good job! Great views!) Swimrun is interesting discipline.

[parttroll]

Great effort guys and I know how ‘fresh’ those tarns can be 🥶. Hardy souls you two 👍🏻