Will I be able to swim the distances in the trip itinerary?

While the daily swim distances may be more than you're used to swimming in a single session, there are a couple of reasons why you may surprise yourself with how far you can swim on your trip.

Firstly, while many people are used to doing all of their daily swimming in a single session, e.g. before work, during lunchtime or at the end of the day, by breaking up your daily distance into several shorter swims, often with one swim in the morning and another in the afternoon, most people find that they can cover significantly greater distance than what they expected.

Secondly, while going up and down a pool can quickly become monotonous and cause you to end your session early, swimming in the open water means that there's always something interesting to look at, both above and below the water. This often means that you cover much more distance without even realising!

Finally, the psychological effect of seeing your target destinations ahead of you, combined with the increased buoyancy that you'll experience in the open water, generally means that it's possible to swim greater distances in the open water than what you could manage in the pool.

It's also worth mentioning that every swimming group is accompanied by its own support vessel, so if you do need to take a break at any stage throughout your swim, you're more than welcome to jump on the boat for a rest.

A classic SwimTrek trip includes around 5km of swimming each day (split over two swimming sessions - one in the morning, another in the afternoon), we also have trips with shorter or longer daily swimming distances - from 3km to 8km. In addition, we offer a range of trips designed to build open water swimming confidence and skills.

You can use the filters on our trip search page to find a SwimTrek adventure that offers the swimming distances just right for you.