Ep. 1177: Open Water Marathon Swimming with Rob Hutchins
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Marathon Swimming: An amazing way to experience some of the world's most impressive waterways. Listen in as Rob Hutchings, a long-distance swimmer, shares his unique experiences and challenges in open-water swimming. Rob discusses his journey from conventional sports to discovering his passion for swimming. He highlights the beauty of New Zealand's landscapes, the meditative state he achieves while swimming, and the safety measures he takes during his swims. Rob also shares stories of his remarkable swims in UNESCO World Heritage sites, his recovery from cancer, and his future swimming adventures, including a humorous tale about a cow that outswam him in a river. This conversation emphasizes the importance of resilience, adventure, and the joy of exploring nature.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:09.4 | We talk with adventures from around the globe to give you the inspiration you need to get started in the outdoors or keep moving if you're already there. |
| 0:17.8 | Now here's your host, Kurt Lindville. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome to another episode of the Adventure Sports Podcast. I have Rob Hutchings |
| 0:24.7 | with us today, and this is a different sort of a sport than we have covered very much. We have |
| 0:33.3 | had long-distance swimming before, but Rob does amazing long distance swims. And in New Zealand, |
| 0:41.7 | in Newfoundland, different places, he calls it marathon swimming, and it's just super cool. So we're |
| 0:50.1 | going to dive right into that. Rob, welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:55.2 | Thanks for having me, Kurt. |
| 0:58.6 | Well, Rob, first of all, where are you today? |
| 1:01.0 | I'm in Christchurch, New Zealand. |
| 1:04.7 | That's where I've lived for the last just over seven years. |
| 1:07.1 | But I'm from Newfoundland in Canada. |
| 1:12.6 | So that's kind of the funny thing, because I could hear just a touch of New Zealand in your voice, but I knew it wasn't home home because definitely not. And I do hear like that |
| 1:20.5 | eastern, northeastern Canada in your voice too. Yeah, I've lived around the world. I'm from |
| 1:26.7 | Newfoundland. I've lived in England that's where I did my |
| 1:29.3 | education. My wife is Australian. I lived there for 15 years and now we both have funny accents |
| 1:35.1 | over on this side of the ditch as we call it, the Tasman. But yeah, we've lived in New Zealand for |
| 1:40.8 | just over seven years. I had a friend from Scotland who had been in the U.S. for so long that he said he goes back to Scotland and people make fun of him because of his U.S. accent. He's in the United States. People make fun of him because it was Scottish accent. It's like, you don't have a home anymore. Yeah, my language is a bit messed up because I have slang language from several countries, |
| 2:01.6 | and sometimes I don't even know what the country anymore it comes from. |
| 2:04.3 | So, yeah. |
| 2:05.1 | That's great. |
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