THE COLD HALF

*** THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING IN THIS YEAR'S RACE. SEE YOU IN 2022! ***

The Cold Half Marathon Swim is a 15km winter marathon charity swim on Hong Kong Island from Stanley Main Beach to Deep Water Bay Beach. This is a solo or 2-person relay race.

For those who love swimming in the chill but mind the extreme distance, you can sign up for the 1.5km Cold Plunge race, which is happening concurrently in Deep Water Bay Beach. This is the only winter swimming event of its kind in Hong Kong.

For extreme triathletes, the inaugural ColdXtreme Challenge starts with a Cold Half solo or relay swim, followed by a virtual self-supported 80km cycle and 20km run on Hong Kong Island.

The event is organised by AVRA and supports Splash Foundation. Splash Foundation provides free learn-to-swim lessons to the under-privileged communities in Hong Kong. It has taught thousands how to swim and some of their graduates have become active open water swimmers. Please consider sponsoring 1 or more entries on a discounted rate for Splash swimmers.

Cold Half

Categories

Solo

Naturally Ocean: no wetsuit
Wetsuited & Buoyant: with wetsuit

Relay

Naturally Ocean: no wetsuit
Wetsuited & Buoyant: with wetsuit

Course Map

cold-half-map

ColdXtreme Challenge

Categories

Solo
Relay

There will be no categories for wetsuit or skin, but your swim time counts as part of the Cold Half race and you could potentially be a category winner.

Course Maps

(last updated 17 Feb 2021)

Swim

coldxtreme-map

Bike

Download bike course map/GPX here (Garmin)

Download bike course map/GPX here (Strava)

Run

Download run course map/GPX here (Garmin)

Download run course map/GPX here (Strava)

Cold Plunge

Categories

Age-group categories

Naturally Ocean: no wetsuit
Wetsuited & Buoyant: with wetsuit

Course Map

cold-plunge-map

Get a Coach

If you would like some coaching for the Cold Plunge, Half, or Xtreme get in contact with Henry Wright at Hong Kong's newest coaching company - Wright Coaching. The Wright Coaching family have extensive swimming and triathlon coaching experience, and unique knowledge of the Cold Half and Cold Plunge - having competed in both multiple times!

Henry's tips on how to prepare and train for a successful Cold Half can be found here.

www.wright-coaching.com

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