SwimAlton

Suffolk’s

Alton Water is the setting for an open water swimming event on June 11, a season-opener for Pacesetter Events. The course is an adventure around the heart of the reservoir near Ipswich, full of features and points of interest and with a beach start and finish. Entrants can challenge themselves on pace or distance, with the options ranging from a half-mile confidence-building swim to a more challenging one- or twomile lap of the course and a 5km swim that’s considered a huge benchmark in open water swimming. Swim floats are compulsory and can be borrowed for the event; wetsuits will be required if the water temperature dips below 16c. Sister events take place later in the summer at the Rutland Water and Grafham Water in Cambridgeshire reservoirs, both popular inland watersports sites with plenty of attractions for supporters and spectators once the swimming is done.

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