After two years of attracting a broad range of high profile to recreational swimmers, the Hotel Rottnest Port to Pub organisers and participants are ‘raising a challenge’ for everyday Western Australians to start training to swim from Perth mainland to Rottnest Island on Saturday 17 March 2018.
We’ve been lucky to secure the support of some fantastic sponsors again.
We’re grateful for the ongoing support of our naming rights sponsor, Hotel Rottnest. The Port to Pub finishes right in front of the Hotel and the Hotel Rottnest team are busy planning the perfect finish line atmosphere to make it one of the best days of your year!
Here we are… standing on Leighton Beach looking out to Rotto… it’s your Port to Pub Day!
You have completed all the training and now it is time for your body to back you and race.
We are delighted that global law firm, K&L Gates, is once again a presenting sponsor of the Hotel Rottnest Port to Pub swim.
Three more sleeps! You will be so excited/nervous, and getting up so early, that you probably won’t sleep much Friday night - so you will be taking part in the Port to Pub before you know it!
Make sure you are prepared for any weather and ocean conditions, and for a longer-than-expected swim. Then, on the day, when it’s beautiful weather, calm conditions, and you get there in sub 5 hours, you will have even more reason to celebrate at the Hotel Rottnest.
Home stretch now, here we go!
Assuming you have taken all my nutrition advice on board and in particular have TRIALLED all your pre/during/post-race nutrition in training, then you are one step ahead of the pack.
Also use it as a little confidence boost pre-race when the nerves to start to creep in that you have prepared and fuelled your body as well as you could have to make it to the swim across the PUB.
Competitors and support crews in the 2017 Port to Pub swim come together at the all-important 1500 metre mark of the race. This year the TAMS Tugboat will once again provide a highly visible waypoint, in TAMS’ second year of sponsoring the swim.
At Port to Pub we’ve been very lucky to have artist Katie Glaskin design a special linoprint especially for the 2017 Port to Pub.
You wouldn’t try a new swim stroke on race day, so why try new foods on race day?
The Port to Pub is rapidly approaching so now is the time to start thinking about the foods you’ll be trying the days before, the night before, the morning of and during the iconic swim.
Race Week
- Don’t change your diet dramatically in the week leading up to race day.
R U OK?Olympian Libby Trickett is diving in to make a difference for R U OK? at the 2017 Rottnest Port to Pub, and encouraging more people to start life-changing conversations.
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