Learning to Swim--Day 23 (Yesterday)

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Before I headed to Friday yoga last night, I had my swim lesson with Paige. And once again, it was another cold afternoon with sunshine and clear sidewalks to walk in. We didn't do any underwater swim lessons yesterday. But we did go back to the lap pool and had reserved a lane. I've warmed up with one lap each of the regular backstroke and the elementary backstroke. Then Paige wanted to work on my free style swimming and used cones for distance markers. First it was halfway at the lifeguard chair, then she moved it a few feet past it. She also had planted another cone that was toward between the first flag banners and the chair. So I swam first to the lifeguard chair and stopped for a quick breather and resume swimming the lap. At the end of the pool, she taught me how to do the front crawl with the freestyle (which is by tilting my body halfway and then fully) after a few strokes. She also wanted me to work on my breathing too. Overall, I've done 5 laps of the freestyle with the front crawl for the duration of my swim lesson. Maybe next week I'll learn how to swim underwater and maybe the butterfly before I go on a brief 1-2 week gym break. Since spring break is next week for the schools here and has two weeks off of work, when she would sub for somebody else, she asked me if I wanted to do Monday and Friday or back to Tuesday and Thursday at an earlier time. I told her I'll stick to the Tuesday and Thursday time slot at 4 PM. Next week, I'll mention to Paige about my brief break to renew my gym membership for a final year in mid-April and return to the gym to resume swim lessons.