Lesson #6 - The halfway mark!

Lesson # 6 heralds the end of the first half of my swim course.

In 6 weeks I have gone from being point blank unwilling to put my face in the water without holding my nose because of the fear of having water travel into my nose and down my throat to not only dunking my face in regularly but doing it without any hesitation at all.

And while I am not yet a fish in the water I am now actually doing something that for short spurts kind of resembles swimming. I have a 5 breath maximum at the moment but I can tell progress between last week and this week (without having done any practise in between - yes naughty naughty) already. 

Last week my left arm was moving into the water too early and causing me to drop in the water and while it still is I have been able to hold it back for a smidge longer and so keep going.  Similarly I can tell I am getting better at taking a breath to the side by keeping my left ear in the water and without lifting my head up out of the water as much. I am also doing a little better in the not taking overly deep breaths stakes. With all this going on I do need to keep remembering to kick and from the hip too!

My goodness so much to remember!  I am sure that for people who can swim this all "just happens" but for me, putting all these different elements into practise and trying to get them each right means there is a lot going on in each stroke.

Some practise in the pool is a must before next week's lesson. :)