65 swimmers from 13 countries responded our most recent poll. Distribution by country: US: 25 responses Spain: 16 UK: 9 Ireland: 4 Australia: 3 Israel, New Zealand, Gibraltar, Portugal, Switzerland, Ukraine, Estonia, Mexico: 1 1. What is the coldest water… Read More ›
Polls & Surveys
Survey Results: Are you Planning a Dream Swim?
A few weeks ago we launched a quick survey to understand people’s open water dream swims. We gota total of 26 responses. 6 from Ireland, 4 from US, 4 from UK, 3 from Canada, 2 from South Africa, 2 from… Read More ›
What’s your dream swim challenge? (4 minute survey)
We’re interested in finding out what sort of marathon challenges y’all are thinking about, how likely is it that you will follow through with the challenge, and what are the main obstacles for not doing so. When we have a… Read More ›
Survey Results: X Ray of Open Water Swimmers
When we conducted our last poll on how swimmers from different countries defined “cold water”, a number of respondents suggested that we do a more comprehensive survey in order to get a better picture of open water swimmers. So a… Read More ›
X-ray of open water swimmers (5 minute survey)
When we conducted our last poll on how swimmers from different countries defined “cold water”, a number of respondents suggested that we do a more comprehensive survey in order to get a better picture of open water swimmers. So, here… Read More ›
Results of the Cold Water Poll for Open Water Swimmers
(Updated on Jan 29 to reflect 90 additional responses received since the last update. Total responses to date: 221) When I read Loneswimmer’s post “Introducing a precise open water swimming temperature scale“, I realized that what I thought was cold… Read More ›
30 second Cold Water Poll for Open Water Swimmers
I am interested in finding out how much the perception and definition of “cold” water changes depending on where swimmers comes from. You just need to read some of Loneswimmers posts to realize that what is cold to some of… Read More ›