Bog Snorkeling Gross But Fun

In 1976 a man named Gorden Green had a conversation with some regular bar folk back in Llanwrtyd Wells. Presumably, after a few drinks he started making wagers about how great he was at swimming through bogs.

The other bar folk were not going to let him run off with the title of best bog swimmer all willy-nilly like that so they determined to settle it once and for all. Little did they know, their once and for all became a national tradition.

Apparently people in Wales and the United Kingdom like the idea too, so they got on the band wagon and started swimming through bogs. Now it has actually become an actually sport with regular contestants and people that want to get into a muddy, filthy bog.

These people don't know it but generally they are referred to bog people, which is also an insult for someone who smells as if they were born of trolls. So, it is not the best nickname to be given, but it is fitting because after swimming in a stinky bog you probably will smell like an unwashed adolescent mythical humanoid creature of some sort.

All that is required for this sport is flippers and a snorkel add those together with a filthy bog pit, and some screaming fans standing a reasonable distance away from the stench. What else could possible make this sport any better?

That is right nothing could. The bog though it is filthy and brimming with disease does provide some really great resistance for the swimmers.

Swimming is a good whole body exercise, but swimming through grimy bog pits, now that is great whole body exercise. Not only do you get the physical resistance to build the muscles, but you also get all that bacteria to work against your immune system.

You know what they say, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger". And, they also used to say, "Throw him in the bogs" referring to corpses of people or animals.

Each of the mucky swimmers has to complete two laps of sixty yards wins. Why the snorkel is there, there really isn't a very good answer for that.

You can't see into the murky water because of all the filth, and you could just as easily lift your head out of the filth to take a breath of air. For some reason when Gorden made the game he thought that snorkels were imperative, so they stuck.

The guess is he was drunk when he thought that it would be important, and later he just didn't have to humility to say he was mistaken. Anyway or either way it created a purely ridiculous sport for the whole world to enjoy, particularly people that like to swim in filth.