So, today I rode my bike 2 miles today, and started my swimming training. The biking went well - I still have a hard time getting up hills, but overall can keep going. Now, swimming was a different matter. I'm starting out with a so-called warm up swim, which for me is just how I normally swim. Then, I'm supposed to do 50 yards (or 2 pool lengths) Freestyle.
First of all, who came up with the name "Freestyle"? Freestyle swimming for me is whatever I feel like doing. Second, I don't think there's another form of swimming that can drain the maximum amount of energy and breath from my body while somehow simultaneously being the slowest swimming stroke (at least for me). Maybe it just feels like forever, because my heart is beating so fast at the end of 25 yards that I thought it was going to pound its way out of my sternum. And I did this twice, consecutively?!
Anyway, I've discovered I dislike Freestyle intensely, at least for now while it's wickedly hard to do. Yet I hear from some folks that it's the swimming that requires the most training...while still others tell me that most people just walk on the bottom of the pool, because there are too many swimmers to actually swim.
Hmm, I'll have to take some time to figure this one out...
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