I happened to notice, while browsing a blog about running, that recently the second annual Nubble Light Challenge took place. Nubble Lighthouse (otherwise known as Cape Neddick Lighthouse) is one of the lighthouses that Mike and I saw this past Christmas (post coming soon!). The Nubble Light Challenge is a 2.4 mile swim that features racing around the lighthouse.
It appears that at approximately the half way mark of the race is where you swim through "the gut" which provides you the opportunity to stare up at the Nubble.
Mike and I were both competitive swimmers growing up and even did a little bit of Masters swimming for awhile. I could see us participating in this challenge sometime in the future, of course we would need to train first and buy wetsuits! Each swimmer needs to have a kayak escort (hint, hint mom and dad) and the website for the race featured a video that took you through the course from the perspective of someone kayaking.
While the water is freezing (hence the need for the wetsuits) I can only imagine how the swimmers in the next photo must have felt when they swam by the Nubble. I would have been breathing a lot just to get as many glimpses of it as I could!
Photo from the Nubble Light Challenge's Facebook page
We will keep this race in mind for the future. In order to qualify for the event you need to prove that you can swim a mile in thirty-five minutes or less, which is definitely do-able for us! It would be nice to get back in the pool again, plus it could lead to us doing one of the next races.
The next two races that I found are triathlons. Mike has mentioned, even though he may just be joking, that he would want to do an Ironman triathlon and these races would be a great way to gain experience and exposure to that type of race.
The first is the Montauk Point Lighthouse Triathlon in Montauk Point, New York. This is a sprint triathlon (.5 mile swim, 14 mile bike, 3.1 mile run) that ends at the top of Turtle Hill where the lighthouse resides. In three previous posts we talked about how we visited Montauk Point Lighthouse in September.
The second is the Ludington Lighthouse Triathlon in Ludington, Michigan. There are two distance options for this triathlon, the first is 1000m swim, 40K bike, 10K run and the second is 500m swim, 20K bike and 5K run. We haven't been to the Ludington North Pierhead Lighthouse yet but I'm sure we will someday!
There you have it, some more interesting races around the United States! I hope that one day we will be able to say that we have done some of these.
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