I started swimming :)

I've decided I'm too lazy to run. I like it when I'm doing it (ish) and I like the way I feel after but it's getting hotter, swimming can be more social and it's new so I am more motivated to do it.

I swam 2k this morning, which I think is impressive. I've gone 3 times now, last Thursday, this Wednesday and this morning (Thursday). I swam 1.35k, 1.5k and 2k those times respectively.

The first time I did it with a girl from work Stacey. We had had the idea to go walking before work for exercise, on the days we start at the same time. But then she asked it if'd like to go to the pool instead. I was hesitant, because I didn't own a one-piece swimsuit and did I still have goggles and I'd have to wake up early etc, but I sorted my crap out, went to Best and Less that afternoon and got cheap swimmers, found my googles and went to bed early.

I am slow at swimming, but I'm sure I've improved, just over the 3 times I've been. I can breathe a lot more smoothly and once I started resting every 100m, rather than each lap, I found it going faster and being a lot more manageable. I'm the type of person that counts each lap obsessively, and works out what percentage I've done, and how much to go, and if I did this many more, what would it be etc. Maybe when I become a stronger swimmer, or at least more confident, I could start stopping every second time I get back to my drink bottle, which I keep at the shallow end of the 50m pool.

I'm just having fun with it right now and it's letting me be a bit more flexible with the not-so-healthy eating (which probably isn't that good). But it's just been like a friend asking me to dessert and it being important that I not say no, and a party today, where the main emphasis was on the food she cooked, so I think it's been a good thing.

And my legs are so sore. I always think of swimming as an arm sport, because that's where my focus is when I'm doing it, on how many strokes until I breathe again, is my hand entering the water right, etc. But the kicking is actually what makes it hardcore I think, even if I don't particularly notice at the time, when I try to get out the pool, I wobble around like crazy.

Anyway, just a brief update, since I'm very determined to not talk/ obsess over weight on this blog, it's not good for me. But this was something positive and I'm excited for it.