And the yearning to swim adventure…
Home
 

Be careful what you wish for…

Well, I came into this hoping to learn to swim, to breathe and to hopefully make it past that 12.5m barrier from my first swimming lesson.  I thought those were reasonable goals and that I could build my way up, so I set the ambitious target of 1km.  I have to say after struggling my …Continue reading

Thwarted, warts and all.

Nah, there’s not really any warts involved in this post, they’re just one of those things people always say you get from swimming pools.  And thwarted has the word wart in it.  I’m waffling because my swim today didn’t go according to plan. Ugh, what a pain. I totally just went for a swim, tried …Continue reading

Halfway: I’ve come as far as I have left to go.

Yep you read that right.  I debated going swimming last night, was tired and didn’t really feel like it but I persevered and was handsomely rewarded.  When I thought I wouldn’t make my 350m again, I managed to keep going to 500m, and I did 34 lengths all up.  I got there late though so …Continue reading

I’m this many: *with hands* 10+10+8

Today’s novelty title is brought to you by the need for me to confirm to the people at the counter that I am indeed an adult, haha. I must be aging a bit though because now they ask me more often than they charge me kids prices. Damn teaching career. Short post today, suffice to …Continue reading

I hope my ‘Spirit Animal’ is a dolphin and not a dog or a deer.

I did a bit of reading around to figure out what might help me to breathe better and get less breathless.  I have been getting to the end of 50m with my lungs burning but my arms and legs feeling fine. So I did some reading, and learned that we terrestrial animals are built EXACTLY …Continue reading

‘Masking for it’

Todays I was really tired but hauled my butt to the pools anyway, and it was raining but lightly enough to still go outside.  For some reason I really dislike the indoor pool, I seem to find it harder to breathe in the warmer water.  Strange! So far I have been having trouble with the …Continue reading

WTF?

What can I say?  I enjoyed the progress I made on Sunday and wanted to keep it going so back to the pool it was on Tuesday.  I thought I did pretty well on Sunday to do 25 lengths all up, and wondered if I would have enough steam to do that again since it …Continue reading

A Cap ‘n’ Goggles for Cap’n Goggles

So with Capoeira on Friday night and Slackline on Saturday, it turned out to be Sunday that I made it to the pool again.  This time I went to the big pool without the little kiddies so I could preserve my dignity try to swim some bigger distances in more realistic conditions.  I decided to …Continue reading

The Kiddy Pool

So today I went to my first ever swimming lesson. I’m also 28 years old. I found out that there’s a learn to swim center a 1.5 minute downhill (ordinary, not electric) bike ride away from my house, which is awesome. The only catch? It was designed for children and they do adult lessons, buuuut …Continue reading

Top