The harder it is, the more popular it becomes. The unyielding psychological and physiological swimming stress that is placed on willing athletes by Cork Distance Week’s Ned Denison is becoming the must-see, must-do, must-experience phenomena of the marathon swimming world.
Like willing candidates at the week-long Hell Weeks of the Navy SEALs or the SAS in the United Kingdom, Denison pushes his charges to the brink…and then some.
The more he pushes, the more desirable the training has become. And for good reason: it works. If a swimmer wants to complete a channel swim or a marathon swim, Denison has developed a formula that works. The formula is the opposite of easy; his methodologies dish out equal amounts of discomfort, and distress.
The Cork Distance Week developed by the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honour Administrator was nominated for the 2012 WOWSA Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year. The nomination is as follows:
A tiny part of the world – Sandycove Island in Ireland – has become a must-do and must-see in the channel swimming world. Sandycove plays host to the Cork Distance Week, the absolutely most brutal, the most unforgiving, the downright dastardly difficult open water swimming camp in the world. The Cork Distance Week has a tremendous record of channel swimming success. Offered for an unbelievable reasonable price of $135 in elements that can be completely and thoroughly unreasonable, the Cork Distance Week prepares long distance swimmers for anything and everything in the open water. Following the first 7 days of high mileage/intense preparation, the swimmers enjoy one indeterminately long day of unyielding psychological and physiological swimming torture. Day 9 concludes with a 6 hour swim that is described as the “last six hours of your next marathon swim”. For the best preparation, forcing swimmers to acknowledge that their next marathon swim may “go long, fo” and for its unequaled record of success, the 9 day Cork Distance Week by Ned Denison is a worthy nominee for the 2012 WOWSA Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year.
Voting will commence between November 1st and December 31st here.
Photo shows Ned Denison accepted his International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame honor on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California.
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