If the World Bog Championship isn’t challenging enough for you, the folks of Llanwrtyd Wells also have another annual event which is the World Mountain Bike Bog Snorkeling Championship. The trench for this event is 45 yards long and 5 feet deep and contestants must ride specially modified bicycles in which the normally hollow tubing of the frame is filled with lead. The tires of the bicycle are also filled with water and the riders themselves even don scuba diving weight belts to help keep them from being too buoyant. The Bog Aqua Cyclists wear a masks and snorkels to keep from ingesting the water from the bog (I sure hope they know about dry snorkels).
For the true athlete, there is always the Bog Snorkeling Triathlon which involves a 12 mile run followed by a 2 length snorkel of the bog and finishing up with a 25 mile mountain cycle. So the next time you are feeling bogged down by life, you might want to head over to Llanwrtyd Wells in Wales and participate in one or more of the annual events, whether it is the bog snorkeling, the mountain bike bog snorkel or the bog snorkel triathlon, you are sure to have a (pun intended) Wale of a time.
