The concept

Kuopio Backyard SwimRun, in 2023 piloted and extremely fascinated concept, will come back alive in Kuopio as an official event in August 2025!
This event will bring swimrunners from different levels together to the same start line loop after loop! No matter what your goal is, this is a swimrun race you will be ready to join!

In Kuopio Backyard Swimrun you will perform a 4,167 km (fighters) marked swimrun-loop starting every exact hour. The Fighters course includes 5 swimming sections of which the longest is 285 m. The total swimming distance is 900 m (21,6 %).
There is also a Light course with 3,5 km and starting at daylight. 

There is no time-keeping for loops in Backyard Swimrun: You are in the race as long as you are able to move on to the next round on exact hour. This means by swimrunning faster you can only get a bit longer pause but no other advantages for the coming loops. In turn, spending too much time on the course will give you too little recovery time before the next loop. If you want to chase an ultra-distance the most optimal time for a loop is between 40–50 minutes