Hello, my name is Kory Broere and I am training to swim the English Channel in the summer of 2022. Let me tell you how I started on this journey...

I turned 49 in 2017, and decided that I wanted to do something BIG as I turned 50. I am an application developer for large communication company, living with my wife, Mary, and son, Zane, in Denver, Colorado. I'm not a sports guy that watches every seasonal sport known to man. But I am a swimmer, who was born and raised in Havre, Montana, right up close to the Canadian border. Although landlocked, swimming was the only sport that I ever participated in that I truly enjoyed.

In the fall of 2003, my brother-in-law, Jim, and I did the Alcatraz swim in San Francisco. It was a challenge that I met quite easily. I remember reading something about people swimming the Channel when I was a kid, which has always been in the back of my mind. After Alcatraz, it got me to thinking about this as the next big challenge for me to reach. The Channel has been referred to as "the Everest of Swims". More people have climbed Mt. Everest than have swam the English Channel. I decided I wanted to be one of the few. A challenge was born.

FYI, as of January 1, 2022, there have been 2663 swims to date, 1749 of them solos, and 914 relays.

I rolled the idea around for a while, but finally said it out loud in the summer of 2017, which was a huge step. Now I was committed and HAD to go through with it!

I started training in September 2017. I was scheduled to swim the last week in June of 2020 but that did not work out (Google Covid-19). The next available slot was for the same tide in 2022. Loads of research has gone in to how you go about starting this journey. What I DIDN'T find were some of the details (such as, what do you eat while you're swimming 21-24 miles?), and how do you train for this sort of thing. So I decided to create a site dedicated to this so that I might help/inspire others to try this as well. Please browse through the site, and contact me with questions.