Open water swim events for masters swimmers: take your pool fitness further with UltraSwim 33.3

Masters swimming gives you the stroke, the fitness and the discipline. What it might not give you is the reason to use it in the open water. UltraSwim 33.3 is that reason. Four days of 4 to 10km in warm open water turn pool speed into real open water endurance, the kind that carries you across the English Channel distance and makes you a 33.3'er. You will swim with people who train like you do, and so far has gone right up to 76 year olds, and you will find the group format pulls a stronger swimmer out of you than any solo session has. It is the most rewarding block you can add to your swimming year.

This is not a training camp. It is four days in a warm water destination, swimming an iconic distance with a community of like minded swimmers, staying in a luxury spa hotel with everything organised. Many Masters swimmers return season after season and treat it as the highlight and main goal of their swimming year.

Open water can feel daunting after years following the black line of the pool. UltraSwim 33.3 takes the worry away. A large envelope of safety assets, with GPS tracking and on water feedstations, and a medical and physio team on site. You concentrate on the swimming while an experienced team looks after everything else.

From €1,800, your comprehensive package covers four days of supported swimming, luxury spa hotel accommodation, breakfasts and lunches, transfers and a structured preparation programme. For a Masters swimmer it is the simplest way to turn a year of training into a real open water achievement, with everything handled so you only have to swim.