2026 SwimRVA New Year's Challenge

🏊‍♂️ SwimRVA New Year's Challenge Overview

The SwimRVA New Year':s Challenge is about YOU. It is about setting goals for the coming year. No matter if you are a beginning swimmer or just finished crossing the English Channel, this event is YOURS. At SwimRVA we want you to be healthy, happy and energized to be part of our community.

We believe swimming can be your vehicle to stay healthy active and fit. The SwimRVA New Year':s Challenge is about setting a goal of how far you can swim.

• Format: Repeating 100 yard swims on an interval.
• Intervals: Designed to allow time to finish each 100 yard swim, get some rest, and then start another.
• Past Goals: Participants have aimed for 3 x 100s up to 100 x 100s.
• Measure of Success: Reaching YOUR goal and setting a NEW GOAL for next year.

🌟 Event Details

The event is going to be on Wednesday, December 31, 2025. The event will run from 2pm-5pm. Check-In starts at 1pm.

• Registration Fee: It's ONLY $75 if registered by October 31.
• Choose Your Interval: Pick an interval where you will get between 15-45 seconds rest.
• Recommended Intervals: Starts at 1:30 and progresses to 4:00.
• Leisure Swimmers: If you are more of a leisure swimmer, you may want to choose 3:30 or 4:00.

💪 Accept the Challenge

This is all about YOU! There is no competition, except with yourself. Will you ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE?

📸 Check Out Last Year's Gallery

Check out last year':s SWIMRVA NEW YEAR'S CHALLENGE GALLERY.

For more information, visit the official race page.