The perfect day...to dive into a peat bog full of freezing water.

Yes it's one of Britain's strangest sporting events -- the world bog-snorkelling championships.

One of the competitors explained, "It's pretty hard, actually, a lot harder than it looks… the cold really takes hold of you, you can't see a thing, I keep trying to look up… Halfway I didn't think I was gonna make it. But I managed to keep going… it was good fun though !"

Competitors have battle it out in a 55 metre trench, but at least they don't have to worry about any fish.

"I don't think there was much life in there anyway...and whatever there was is well and truly dead now!" joked another competitor.

The rules are that you have to swim the bog without stopping and without using conventional swimming strokes.

Sheila Tompkins, event organiser explained, "there's something here that drives you completely nuts, there are so many wacky people around here… But look at all these guys they can't all be mad!"

Some 250 people battle it out in the bog. Some take part for the experience,others like Becky are playing for keeps. She was last year's junior champion. "Somebody has already beaten my time, I'm very disappointed, but I still like it…" she stated.

The village's next plan: an alternative world games to run during the London Olympics in 2012.

They're already putting the finishing touches to plans for mountain-bike bog snorkelling, and a humans v. horses marathon.