Everyone loves the movie Finding Nemo. Often when I'm swimming and my arms are about to fall off, I hear the statement above loud and clear... JUST KEEP SWIMMING.
Boy Tuesday was tough after my weekend of doing the 50K trail run. Normally we swim on Monday, Wednesday and Friday but, the pool was closed on Monday which was probably a good thing cause my body was still sore from Saturday's trail run.
Tuesday morning I was still feeling fatigued so decided to just swim easy. Now I'm NOT saying I normally swim hard and fast .... I'm just saying that Tuesday was an easier pace that normal. I also brought my GoPro and decided to film a little. You can't see yourself when swimming and really you may think your keeping your head down or that your doing the proper high elbow stroke, but in reality you may not. I remember when I first started swimming Warren would tell me constantly... get that head down. Took me months of swimming to improve on that. I still have tons of improving to do in all areas, but it's getting better. I did an easy mile and usually that's 35 laps and 1,100 strokes! When I say laps I mean down and back to be 1 lap! Go try it.. it's FUN. :<>) Here's a little short video that I took:
I'm really glad I took the video. Right off the bat I noticed that my feet aren't really splashing any. I've read that your ankles should come out of the water from time to time if you are swimming with pointed toes and with your belly button tucked in. You don't want your toes pointed to bottom of pool or your legs lagging. That causes way too much drag and slows you down. I also notice that I'm over rotating a little to much. This also slows you down. Swimming properly is TOUGH especially when you didn't learn to swim until you are 49 years old. LOL
I won't back down! I'll keep pushing and moving forward. It's 6 months till Ironman 70.3 Augusta, Ga., so I've got time to improve and get better. I'll be taking my GoPro more so I can see if I'm making improvements as the months fly by. It's also water proof so next time I think i'll get some footage from under the water. 
Happy training to you whatever you are doing...swim, bike, run, walk, jog, ..... have FUN! I do! D
"Rise up, Take courage, and DO IT!" Ezra 10:4
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