{"id":407666,"date":"2019-12-19T03:57:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T10:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=407666"},"modified":"2019-12-19T03:57:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T10:57:06","slug":"lewis-pugh-seeks-polar-swimmers-for-prep-on-way-to-east-antartica-ice-sheet-swim-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lewis-pugh-seeks-polar-swimmers-for-prep-on-way-to-east-antartica-ice-sheet-swim-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Pugh Seeks Polar Swimmers For Prep On Way To East Antartica – Ice Sheet Swim 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who could resist?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Swimmers Wanted: Looking for young guns to train with polar swimmer. Must be willing to swim and run hard. No tea breaks. No Hogmanay. Outer Hebrides 29 Dec to 8 Jan.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s how Lewis Pugh<\/strong><\/a>, “polar swimmer”, ocean advocate and International\u00a0Hall of Fame Presidential Honor Award recipient<\/a>, calls the brave to his East Antartica – Ice Sheet Swim 2020<\/strong><\/a> Mission through the wanted columns of newspapers and social media.<\/p>\n

Outer Hebrides, winter, a place where the official tourist office pitch to travellers its summed up by the slogan “Experience Life on the Edge”<\/a>. Apt to opt for the word ‘slogan’, with its dual meaning: ‘a short and striking or memorable phrase used in advertising’ or, historically, ‘a Scottish Highland war cry’.<\/p>\n

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Pugh’s Prep will certainly need a Braveheart spirit. The waters won’t be warm, though balmy might be how those who join Team Polar come to regard the waters off the Scottish coast compared to the stretches to be swum on a spectacular schedule of a month and a day from December 28.<\/p>\n

Think 8-10c for the training phase. Think ice for the ice-sheet stretch of this timeline:<\/p>\n