Swimming...

We recently joined the YMCA. One of the reasons is because Josh gets a pretty good deal though work and another reason is because we need a place to practice swimming. Never in my life have I claimed to be a good swimmer. I can basically keep myself from drowning and that's about it. Today we decided to go to the Y and let the boys swim. Josh worked out for a bit while I played in the pool with the boys. After a while, Josh joined us and then told me to go swim laps for 10 mins. Um...yeah...no. I was TOTALLY embarrassed to swim laps! I know that there is never going to be a time when I am the ONLY person in the pool, but still I didn't want to do it. So Josh went first. While he was gone I was thinking about the fact that I would NEED to practice if I ever expect to swim in the Tri. So when he got back, I asked if there was an extra lane open, he said there was. I mustered up all my courage and walked over to the lap pool and got started. Now in high school I took a swim class. I specifically remember them teaching us how to freestyle swim properly. So as I am swimming, I go to put my face in the water and I realize that I have completely forgotten how to breathe while swimming. I know you are supposed to take a breath to the side and then put your face back down, but all that I managed to do was inhale some water! So the rest of my laps I swam with my face out of the water, which looks somewhat silly and is much less productive. Now my new goal is to remember how to swim the RIGHT way! This is going to be a process. In the end, I swam 100 meters freestyle (sort of) and 50 meters backstroke. Yeah, that is LESS than half of the total distance I have to swim and when I got out of the pool my legs were JELLY! I keep telling myself that I am going to get better, I just have to stick with it...but my postive self talk is somewhat faltering. I'm hoping that once I see some improvement that will help me to stay positive and want to keep trying harder!