Tik’s been learning front-crawl in her classes and yesterday I attempted it myself. Today whilst Tik and Lisa relaxed in their rooms I decided to try it myself. Usually I’m a breast-strokist (?), I used to need to swim wearing glasses when I was young so although I’m a strong swimmer, and although I must have learnt front-crawl many years ago, swimming with breast-stroke was always my choice.

Breaststroke never seems to tire me out and I usually end up getting bored of my swim. In Sammakorn last year I’d occasionally swim 30-40 lengths of the 25 metre pool before getting fed up. I never really felt breast-stroke was very credible exercise.

Crawl is conversely exhausting. I found myself panting like a dog in a sauna after merely two lengths today. By the end of my swim my arms ached, my heart beat like mad and I left feeling good and as tired as I am after 30 minutes of running. It’s opened up a whole new world of using a swim to exercise properly and I intend to get into length-swimming from now on. I can swim much faster too so I’ll hopefully not have as much time to get bored.

Let’s see if tomorrow I can managed 3 lengths.

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