It would be far too easy to make an excuse and skip the pool just because I felt a little bit grizzly. A swim it would be come what may.

Others tell me of nightmare swims. They can’t expect me to fly. Or as yet to cover great distances against the clock. This was a ‘remedial’ class.

200m FC
12 x 50m keeping in deep and long like Michael Phelps
6 x 25m lane clear exaggerated and slow
Some BC
A swim down

I used the pull-bouy from time to time.
I got cramp in one foot and then both.
My lungs became a little sticky from plegm.
I hung in!