CLPOA Swim Challenge

Swim Safely – Ensure boaters can see you.

Chandos Lake has a 75 kms* shoreline.  As a group how many times can we swim around it?

Summer 2023 is CLPOA’s 4th Annual “Around Chandos Lake” Swim Challenge.

First year – 2019

Our group swam 928kms equal to 12 times around Chandos Lake

Second year – 2021

Our group swam 1,277kms equal to 16 times around Chandos Lake

Third year – 2022

Our group swam 767kms equal to 10 times around Chandos Lake

Please join us if you:

• Can swim or float with a noodle.
• Can swim a little or a lot.
• Can swim every day or just the week you are on vacation at the cottage.
• Want to swim alone and track your own distance or create a team and work together.

One requirement – you must be swimming in Chandos Lake.

How to participate:

1. Sign up as an individual or a team.
2. Swim responsibly.
3. Track your distances in metres.
4. Submit your total on a weekly basis using the honour system.

All distances, no matter how small, will help us swim “around” Chandos Lake.

Start Date:   As soon as you are brave enough to jump in the lake.

End Date: Labour Day

To Register >> REGISTRATION LINK

SWIM RESPONSIBLY:

• If you swim out from the shore, use a spotter.
• Ensure you are visible to boaters.
• Swim with a buddy, not alone.

What counts as participation?

• If your arms and/or legs are moving, any style – Freestyle, Breaststroke, Backstroke, Butterfly, Dog-paddle – assisted by fins, swim noodles, flutter boards, life jackets, water wings.
• Face in or out of the water, with or without goggles or swim mask.

What doesn’t count as participation?

• Dipping your toe in the water
• Floating on an air mattress
• Swimming in a pool or another lake.

Any questions? Email info@clpoa.ca.

*Distance has been calculated using Geodistance.com measuring the shoreline including all bays.