Swimming is getting easier for me - although that’s not saying much. Today followed what’s becoming my standard pattern of needing 5-6 laps to find a rhythym, then settling down and doing the remainder while working on various things. Still took a breather at the end of most laps, although I did manage a few 2-lap sets.

I found that if I relax, I can comfortably manage to breath every 4th stroke rather than every 3rd; my lung capacity is not the problem. Once anything slips, though, I end up breathing every 2nd. I think I’m taking far too much air in for that to work properly, and expelling the dead air is taking more time than I comfortably have, so I’m still exhaling when I should be inhaling, end up gulping air… you get the idea. Its absolutely my number one problem right now in the water.

17 60M laps, 1020 meters. Its getting easier.

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