I went for a nice swim today! I went to the pool for laneswimming instead of the sea while I wait for a new stingsuit to arrive because it is much too warm for my wetsuit. It was very low pressure and there were only two others there which was great.
I swam around 1km in my 45 minutes. It felt really nice. My body is tired and my legs and back are sore. My buoyancy is still quite off - I am quite buoyant in general but particularly fin-light. I was also struggling with my breathholding.
But it was really nice. The tank is a little shallow but it is a nice length it is around 25m long and 7m wide and it is pretty comfortable especially where it is deeper. Sometimes I would swim with my arms above me in a streamline position. Though most of the time I would swim with them by my sides and they felt so flipper. It was really nice to swim with them stiff like flippers and manoeuvre around like they were flippers. It is really easy and natural, though sometimes I would get stuck in the corner because how the pool was shaped and since it is laneswimming I was really limited to a small lane of the pool. My arms though really felt as flippers and my legs as tail and fluke that at points while swimming I would forget my body was human which was always a startle me if my flipper passed into my field of view because I had forgotten they looked like arms, or similarly with my fluke when I was stuck in the corner and trying to manoeuvre myself to face the other way.
My breathing even was not too bad, though I struggled to hold my breath super long, I could surface and dip back below the water without losing too much speed. The only downside is after around 900m the tops of my ankles started to ache and I think from fatigue my legs were having trouble pumping evenly and together so the feeling of my tail felt really off. Otherwise it was lovely and I hope I can find a time that it remains nice and quiet there to go swimming. Also hopefully my stingsuit comes in soon so I can go back to the sea while swimming. My nearish term goal is to swim down and back the beach in front of the city which is 2,5km.
