Nanna Bergendahl

– Why do you want to participate in One Water Race?

It is a very challenging competition which tempts me. I have participated in many different endurance competitions that include navigation, but the role as support crew to my amazing team was a new experience for me and I would like to put all the lessons learned to good use with a new attempt to make it all the way!

– Have you taken a similar challenge before?

Yes, during OWR2024, I feel we have more to give as a team!

– What are your strengths?

My ability to focus and my optimistic attitude. I have always been very interested in navigation and all kinds of maps since I was born and I almost grew up in a sailing boat on the west coast of Sweden so I have a lot of experience from the archipelago. In business I am a production manager so I am used to working together as a team and that is of course also very important in an endurance race like One Water Race.

– What are your weaknesses?

Of course, our lack of experience in this type of race. But we have competed in a lot of other challenging experiences so we hope, with good preparation, it will be enough.

– What would be your biggest challenges in this race?

To stay focused during the whole race, especially at night. It is very challenging to navigate on land when it is completely dark. We have a plan for that and will practice a lot before the race.

– Have you been to the Stockholm archipelago and what do you know/think about the terrain?

Yes, during OWR2024 and in addition I have been sailing every year since I was a kid and I have been moving around a lot in the archipelago. Not in Stockholm but on the West coast. I also created a challenge for me and my friends during the pandemic that we called Fyr till fyr swimrun. It was a swimrun adventure on the west coast where we during the weekends, through running and swimming, travelled from the lighthouse of Nordkoster to the lighthouse of Vinga, just outside Gothenburg. My mission with the adventure was to create the best and also most beautiful course on our way from the northern parts of Bohuslän to the southern parts. I have to say it was a success!

– What are you most looking forward to, if you would participate in One Water Race?

We as a team are humble before the challenge One Water Race maybe even more so as we have now made one attempt, but at the same time convinced that our team is up to it and that we would prevail crossing the finish line at Landsort.