Swimrun NC 2025 race report
End of an era. While Swimrun Lake James 2018 was our first swimrun race, seeing photos from Swimrun NC was what made us fall in love with the concept of swimrun in the first place. When we finally did the race in 2019 , we had an amazing time, and it fully had our hearts. It was a must-do every year (even choosing it over the much-more-convenient-for-me Swimrun Austin the year they were both held the same weekend). The pandemic ate the race in 2020, but we were back for 2021 and 2022. 2023 they took a break to reassess, ready to come back strong for 2024. Except then Hurricane Helene hit North Carolina, and the race was postponed from Fall 2024 to Spring 2025. And announced to be the final running of Swimrun NC. Devastating. My training in Fall 2024 was going well. I joined the Envol Startline Ready group for Rockman Swimrun , which started in November. That felt egregiously early for a race in early July, but now I'm SO glad I did, becau...