Do you know the tingly feeling of being on the verge of a new hobby?

[dj3ei@mastodon.radio]

I was forced into swimming lessons as a schoolboy and largely hated it. Not good at it, either. Sports at school was 95% humiliation and at most 5% fun.

Learned diving sort-of like you do now, by myself, in shallow water, on my own, in my own pace. For me, the issue was opening my eyes under water.

Years later, voluntarely took a course to learn different ways to swim. Never learned the crawl, though, as I was suffering from a common cold when that was taught.

@blinry

[blinry@chaos.social]

I'm now in week 4 of Ruth Kazez' training plan to swim 1500 meters straight! It's really fun!

I made this diagram showing how the plan is structured for myself, maybe it can be useful for someone!

Read more about it here: https://blinry.org/visual-0-to-1500/

[blinry@chaos.social]

I've been practicing to put my face in the water every day, and it's getting easier.

One thing that really helped was getting swimming goggles! Not having water in my eyes helps me focus on breathing.

For practicing, I slowly graduated from the tiny warm relaxation pool to a pool used to teach swimming, and then to the 25-meter, which is often less busy.

On Monday, I managed to swim the full 25 meters in breast stroke, with my face going in the water for each stroke for the first time!