Clearwater Beach Lifeguard Ocean Mile Swim
About this race
JOIN Clearwater Fire and Rescue Beach Lifeguards for the 2nd annual Ocean Mile Swim on beautiful Clearwater Beach. Proceeds from this year's swim will be donated to the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay ensuring that no one in our community has to face crisis alone. Crisis Center of Tampa Bay | Compassionate Services that Offer Help, Hope & Healing, including this year a portion donated to Amber Nahorodny- Clearwater Police Department Telecommunicator. Amber was recently diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer. “I have worked in Clearwater as a police dispatcher for the past 20 years. I like to travel and be active and one of my favorite places to do that is at our National Parks. Looking forward to the Tampa Bay Lightning playoffs! Also, if you have any unusual symptoms for your body, or have put off a cancer screening, schedule that appointment.”
Event details: Sunday, May 3, 2026
Location: Clearwater Beach- Lifeguard Tower 7
Swim Course: Start/Finish shoreline at tower 7 with a beach start, swimmers will swim south to a turnaround buoy just north of pier, and loop back north along the shoreline with a beach finish.
Event timeline: 6:30am- Registration Open to receive your chips and post brunch wrist band, 7:15am- Safety debrief and check presentation, 7:45a- Swim Start, 9:30am- Course Closed *Parking: 4 Rockaway Street, Clearwater Beach- you must pay for parking *We strongly encourage ALL swimmers to swim with personal swim buoy!
NEW this year: 10:00am-Noon we will host a post party brunch complete with a Bloody Mary & Mimosa Bar at Hogg Daddy's Beach Bar and Grill located at 752 S. Gulfview Blvd, Clearwater Beach. This is open to family and friends. Wrist bands will be given out at registration, you may purchase more than one ticket with your registration, wrist bands will be provided at registration to attend the brunch.
Thank you to our sponsors this year.
Kennedy Law Racing, Deboer Swim, Future Home Reality: Mike and Lori Dunlap, Tower 8 Staffing Solutions, Hogg Daddy's Beach Bar & Grill, City of Clearwater, Clearwater Fire & Rescue, and Race Director OWS Leo Briceno.
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Clearwater Beach Lifeguard Ocean Mile Swim
Clearwater Beach Lifeguard Ocean Mile Swim & Post Swim Brunch including Bloody Mary & Mimosa Bar at Hogg Daddy's Beach Bar and Grill
Typical race-day weather
Based on 2 years of Open-Meteo archive data for this event's race dates in Clearwater Beach, plus the 3 days either side.
The sun rises at 6:49 AM and sets at 8:06 PM local time (EDT) in Clearwater Beach on May 3, 2026 — 13h 17m of daylight.
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2026 results — Clearwater Beach Lifeguard Ocean Mile Swim
Clearwater Beach Lifeguard Ocean Mile Swim · 62 finishers
| Place | Name | Time | Pace |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Karen Westerman | 25:43 | 25:43 /mi |
| 2 | JP Atherholt | 26:29 | 26:29 /mi |
| 3 | Cole Duckett | 26:45 | 26:45 /mi |
| 4 | Michelle Ziglar | 27:42 | 27:42 /mi |
| 5 | David Allbritton | 28:04 | 28:04 /mi |
Every finisher is on the results page, filterable by distance, gender and age group.
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Where this page comes from. Race details were last updated on . We re-check listings regularly and again in the week before race day.
- Entries, prices, waves and inclusions — the event's official registration page
- Temperature and humidity — Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
- Elevation and terrain relief — Copernicus DEM GLO-90, ESA (CC BY 4.0)
- Comparisons and counts — Race Discovery calendar, 3 Clearwater Beach events
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