So, I started swimming again. I’ve been thinking about it for a while, but just got back in the water last week. That was a really scary hurdle. I was nervous that I would chicken out. Or that I would get to the pool and people would laugh because I don’t look the way in a bathing suit that I would like to look. Or that I would get halfway across the pool and not be able to make it to either side. There was a good bit o fear, but I swallowed hard, wore my suit under my clothes and went for it. No one looked twice at me, and the workout went better than I had anticipated.
One other thing that had been holding me back was that I didn’t know what to do. I swam in high school, but there was a coach telling me what to swim, how long to swim, how hard to swim, how much I could rest and everything else. After a little searching, I found a site that gave me steps to go from 0-1 mile in a week. OK– actually 700 – 1 mile in 6 weeks. I wasn’t sure if I could swim 28 laps right of the bat, but the structure helped boost my confidence to try.
Not only was I able to do the 700, but I threw in another 300 just to make it an even 1,000 yards. The next day, I bumped it up a little more and added a few laps of kicking, too. This week, I noticed that my shoulder was a little sore, so I cut my workout short after the prescribed 900 yards for week 2. Of course, I tossed in another hundred of kicking. All the way home from the pool, I wished I was still swimming. Man, I loved that.
Also? This means I get to cross off #14 of my list.
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