Yesterday I went to a pool

I went to a pool yesterday. Like a public pool. And I swam. Last year friends asked me to go swimming and there was no way on this earth I would consider going with them- togs are not even on the thought radar but even wearing clothes, NO WAY - are you kidding me - people would see wet clothes sucking onto every lump and bump!!

Then I did the tri in October & made a fool out of myself in the pool, one reason being I freaked out putting my head under water because I didn't think I could breathe. So I made it as a goal this week to go swimming - no event, just at a plain old regular pool and take it slowly. I planned it for yesterday then talked myself out of it.

Then I just did it.

View from my car before I went in: so scared!

It was so unplanned that I went in the gym clothes I was wearing and I had no towel and saturated my car afterwards. I freaked out with having to swim under lane placers to get to my lane (breathing) but I did it and swam 500m no worries and could have kept going. I did my new stroke: Keep My Head Out Of The Water At All Times Breaststroke but it doesn't really matter does it? Then I made myself dunk under the water 5x before I hopped out.

I survived. And no-one stared at my wet clothes. Even if they did I wouldn't have cared because I felt confident enough to be there in my own body.

So different to last year.