Challenge Almere-Amsterdam 2017 A few miles east of Amsterdam,the whole region of what is now called Flevoland didn’t exist until 1976 - until then it was under the sea. It was reclaimed, and is now characterised by dikes, windmills, nature reserves and endless straight roads. The new city of Almere organised the

Extreme temperatures in the week leading up to the race heated the usually cool Lake Allier to near swimming pool temperatures and all week there were rumours that it will be a non-wetsuit swim and this was confirmed when it was officially measured an hour before the race. We’d both done