I love being in the water.
In many respects, I’m an excellent swimmer.
I feel like there is zero danger of me drowning (not zero, but pretty close). I’ve got lots of endurance. I float well.
But I’ve always struggled with lane swimming, with free style/front crawl. I’m horrible at coordinating my breathing. I get water in my nose, hair in my eyes, and I seem to lack the basic coordination to have anything like a real stroke.
I’ve mastered it once in my life, with a total immersion swim coach for triathlon, but even then I was the anchor member of the slow lane. Like I could do it, but I never got any better, any faster. In triathlons, I was always the last person out of the water who didn’t need to be rescued.
I’ve taken learn to swim a bunch but the problem there is that I can swim. I won’t drown. I just can’t do a recognizable stroke that would have me swim laps.
Here’s me in 2018 and more about it here. And also in 2018, more about me and swimming and my love of swimming outdoors.
I’ve considered just getting a snorkel for lane swimming!
One thing for certain, this summer I will swim more outside.
But I want your advice about learning to lane swim inside. What’s the best way to learn? I’m too good for learn to swim and not good enough for any masters’ swimming groups.
The blog has some excellent swimmers: Catherine, Tracy, Savita, Mallory, Diane, Nat….I want to join your ranks.
Advice welcome. Did I mention that?
