The Channel Swim
Swim 34km (21.1 miles), the distance of the English Channel, over as many swims as you need. Indoors or out, it all adds up.
Once it's installed, find The Channel Swim in the Challenges feed.
Cross the Channel. Bit by bit.
Swim 34km in total before the challenge closes. Log each swim in the Harry's app and your distance stacks up until you've crossed.
Indoor and outdoor swims both count, and you don't have to do it in one continuous swim. Track every session on a fitness wearable or app with distance and elapsed time showing, and make sure each one happens inside the challenge window.
Make the crossing. Earn your tickets.
Swim the full 34km and you earn 10 tickets into Harry's monthly prize draw.
Live leaderboard and draw details are in the app.
Every metre on the record.
Split the 34km across as many swims as you like, as long as every one is tracked. Any of these and that swim won't count.
Not tracked on a fitness wearable or app.
Doesn't countNo distance or elapsed time in the activity.
Doesn't countSwum before the challenge opened.
Doesn't countSwum after the challenge closed.
Doesn't countTracking & Submission
- Fitness wearable or app: COROS, Garmin, Apple Watch, Strava, etc.
- Distance and elapsed time must be available for every swim.
- Log the distance from each swim in the Harry's app. You can add a screenshot or your Strava link as proof.
- No need to do it in one go: you don't have to complete the distance in one continuous swim.
- Issues? ethan@hardcoreharrys.com.au
How To Enter
The Channel Swim is a members challenge. Download the Harry's Challenges app, become a member, and join it from the Challenges feed. Then grab your goggles.
Enter in app Already in the app? Open The Channel SwimShow full disclaimer
Participation is voluntary and at your own risk.
You confirm you are in good physical health and assume all liability for any injuries. Hardcore Harry's AU PTY LTD reserves the right to disqualify any entry that violates submission rules. Repeated violations may lead to removal from the challenge.What is a virtual distance challenge?
A virtual distance challenge gives you a big total to reach over weeks or months, and lets you get there however suits you. Every run, ride or swim you log adds to your tally until you hit the target.
The targets are often real journeys: a lap of an island, a famous crossing, the length of a canyon. It turns ordinary sessions on your local loop into progress toward something you'd never do in one go.
Because you can split the distance across as many sessions as you like, it fits around work and life. Little and often gets you there just as surely as a few huge days.
- Cumulative distance
- Your running total across every logged session.
- Challenge window
- The dates your sessions have to fall between to count.
- Target
- The total you need to reach to finish.
From download to the draw.
- 1
Download Harry's
Free on the App Store and Google Play.
- 2
Join the challenge
Find The Channel Swim in the Challenges feed. It's a members challenge, so become a member, then tap join.
- 3
Do it. Prove it.
Track it with your watch or a running app, then log it in the Harry's app with a screenshot or your Strava link.
- 4
Climb the board
Every entry goes on the leaderboard, and earns your shot at the prizes.
The Channel Swim challenge, explained.
More challenges like this.
Ready to Cross the Channel?
The Channel Swim runs Thu 27 Aug to Fri 27 Nov. Download Harry's, become a member, and start stacking up the kilometres.