Swimming

Last night we finally resumed swimming. We made a decision at the start of year to try and keep up with it better than at the end of last year, and would you believe it, last night was only the second time we've made it to the pool this year. With illness, trips away, more illness, tiredness, and some other excuses, we simply havn't had a chance to get round to it, so it was really good to be able to find we had no excuses and had to go last night!
We managed 26 lengths, which isn't bad. By the end of last year we were up to 40, but it's going to take us a little while to get up to that level again. I'm not a strong swimmer, and with the added problem of my dislocating shoulder I do worry about exercising (and that's another reason for me not to go the gym!) but the swimming seems to do me good and get me to use the shoulder a bit more than I would normally. I still can't do proper backstroke, because that movement really doesn't help the shoulder, but I seem to get along ok. Just got to remember how to do front crawl without ending up with a mouthful of chloriney water!

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