Bog Snorkelling

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Official Site (llanwrtyd-wells.powys.org.uk)

It’s not to everyone’s tastes but those with a penchant for mud wrestling or perhaps watching people flounder around in a dirty, smelly, mud-filled peat bog, might find it is for them. The Bog Snorkeling contest in Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales has been held over August Bank Holiday Monday for the past 21 years, and is a surreal contest in which participants must swim two laps of a 60-yard long trench dug out of a peat bog wearing snorkels, flippers and perhaps a wet suit. May the best time win. Bizarrely, more than 100 snorkellers from as far away as Russia and Australia competed in the 2006 event, with several hundred spectators cheering them on. There are contests in junior, women, and men’s categories, proceeds from the GBP12 entrance fee going to local charities. The winner of the main 2006 contest hailed from Leeds, but his time of 1 minute 41.42 fell short of the world record of 1min 35sec. Perhaps you should try to beat that in 2007.

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