Waaaa and waaa! 

Ok I have jumped six months but this sentence would have been the same then as now. I can not believe how hard swimming is! 

I had compared it to learning how to drive but swimming is beating it in difficulty. The challenges keep changing and the changes never end! Do you ever get there? Does it ever become natural? I don't need easy, just that it would feel more normal And by the way, how can a pool be a different length sometimes!?

These are all rhetorical questions! there is no wine near me!

For the first time since I started swimming, this weekend I felt I was able to call myself a swimmer. Last thursday was a huge jump in my amazing swim journey and it was all falling into place. Small things like leaving the nose clip behind and a whole session without using the pullbouy were big small things overcome and it was all fairly fluid (sorry!) 

But today it fell apart. I fell apart. I try to come to the pool thinking and feeling positive. I think about the pool in the car on the way, about feeling the water, relaxing into it, how much I know, that I won't drown, that it is safe, Like today! But today the brain and breathing went 'No way missus and get off that pedestal while you're at it' 

Tomorrow there may be a humbler swimmer but a more determined one!

Hey,

Here's the beginning ...

In January this year I started running. There was definitely more mud and crawling in Hell and Back but it was the trigger. Once I got over the shock that just cause I could walk did not mean I could run, I started loving it. Ran a few 5 and 10k races and did well for a newbie.
But Miss Impatience needed a bigger challenge.
In May I signed up for a sprint triathlon at the beginning of August. Loads of time.
Swim, I can do the breast stroke with my head out of the water. Bike, hmmm, need to borrow. And sure I can run properly now. My simple thinking before I pressed send on confirmation for the entry.

Thus started my jump into a summer of amazing challenges and when chlorine became my perfume.

By the way, a friend laughed when I told him I was doing a triathlon, He said 'You don't like getting your hair wet'