Of the 224 swimmers who finished last year’s Barnegat Light Ocean Mile Swim, 188 of them arrived to the finish line at or below the 30-minute mark, including a bunch of first-timers to the race. Now, of course, there’s no guarantee that will occur again this year – it all depends on the direction of the ocean’s current – but it’s not too early to start preparing for the 10th edition of the event, slated for Saturday, July 28.

“Every year, our hope is that we get a lot of swimmers and they enjoy the experience,” event director John Schulze said…