Set your sights on these challenging swims for your New Year?s resolutions. Whether you prefer open water or pool swimming, there?s a challenge for you. I?ve ranked them in order from easiest (1) to hardest (5), but make no mistake, the easiest is in no way easy.

1)     New World Record
Every year swimming records are made and broken, and in 2019 the bar was raised by Ross Edgley, who swam around the Great British coasts of England, Scotland and Wales with only brief sleep breaks over a staggering, shrivelling and unprecedented 157 days of open water swimming. This is the easiest item on the list because anyone could set a previously unrecorded swimming record at any time, such as the longest swim while strapped to a giant log; another mental, physical triumph of the brave Brit. 2)     Red Bull Neptune Steps

Pictured above is a small canal lock, which is how canal boats get up and down hills, not people. However the pioneers at Red Bull are trying to change that, and the Neptune Steps challenge pits hundreds, sometimes thousands of swimmers against 7 huge locks in Glasgow, making it one of the top swimming events of the year, if only for bragging rights.
3)     Morocco Swim Trek, Sahara Desert

These races take the term ?heat? seriously, as they are based in the worlds most famous desert, the Sahara. Where many have struggled to find water, competitive swimmers have flocked for the last 5 years to swim 4 different competitions in 4 days, to be crowned King of ...