Learning to Swim--Day 11

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On this frigid winter afternoon, when I don't normally go to the gym on it, I bundled up with my winter coat and my gloves and boots. I trekked on and off the sidewalks with the sun in the sky and made it in time and early to get a practice lap in before the lesson. This winter weather is crazy and this week and weekend it'll be warmer in the 40s. Maybe I'll return to the gym next week or in two weeks, since I have 2.5 months left to go in the gym membership. I managed to get one lap of the front stroke in before my lessons started. I came close of making it entirely as long as I've practiced breathing. Then I've started my next lesson with Paige with 2 full laps of the back stroke to warm up--no issues there. Then we've practiced breathing in the water a little bit, before I could do the strokes with her. Maybe on Thursday, when I get more comfortable with it. Then she showed me how to do the breast stroke--finaly a new stroke to learn. She said I was a natural with the strokes, but likewise wih the frontstroke, I have issues with the breathing there. Maybe I'll get it on Thursday too. Then she showed me how to do the front crawl--something I've sort of learned with Rachael at the final lessons with the transitions. So I did half laps with the front crawls and back stroke. I did three of them. Then I did 1.5 laps of both the regular and elementary backstrokes with the front crawls. I came close to make it full, when I've ran out of stream. I'll get there. I've just texted Rachael to let her know about how it went today. Hope she texted back with some encouraging words of thoughts. Paige didn't say anything on what we're doing for Thursday--I bet it might be the same thing. Now I just have to learn the back crawl, side crawl, and the butterfly to wrap up the lessons in the coming weeks and maybe do 2 full laps with front crawls as well.