Swimming AND breathing?

One of the things that's come out of tonight's ultrasound session was the possibility of more swimming. That's a stretch for me - I've never been a confident swimmer. Never been comfortable with immersing my face in the water. Never worked out how to breathing and swimming at the same time.

I can stay afloat and even make reasonable ground in the water. But front crawl consists of head-in-the-water-rotate-the-arms-swim-super-speedy until air runs out, then surface, stop, breathe in and repeat. Not how they tend to do it in the Olympics. Unless you're Eric the Eel. And even he seemed to get the hang of it pretty quickly.
I've always meant to do something about it, but never quite known what or where to go.

But I've now discovered a possible solution. Rather than embarrass myself at swimming classes (I doubt Genevieve would be that impressed if I turned up at hers, although the novelty value would be good for about 10 minutes), it turns out the Bedford Tractors (triathlon athletes) hold a regular swimming training session at Bedford School with a coach to help improve performance. And that includes people with my swimming technique.

Definitely worth a try.

Tony

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