LAKE Boga threw up a challenge to competitors at this year’s Bank 2 Bank event, with strong winds driving choppy water on Sunday morning.

Now in its fourth year and with a growing field of competitors, the event attracted 60 swimmers for the 3.1km swim, up from 45 last year, and 70 runners, an increase of 15, for the 5km run/walk.

Winner of the swim event, 18-year-old Conor Hayes, had travelle...