2013 November

November, 2013

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

Nov

‘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

Nov

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

Nov

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

Nov

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

Nov