Swimming Lessons

Today my daughter had her first swimming since we moved back from Darwin. It did not go well.

Not because of the swimming though, our daughter is quite a good little swimmer for a four year old. Living in Darwin you spend about 6 months of the year swimming every day, so that helps. No it was more on the instruction side. She just didn't understand why she should be doing what this guy was telling her, instead of what she wanted to be doing. School next year could be an interesting experience.

To try and get her to understand that swimming lessons are important we told her that Mummy and Daddy both had swimming lessons when they were younger. In fact I added, Daddy had a swimming lesson this morning. That really stumped her. I think she still doesn't really get it. But you can swim already was her response. Oh well.

On that note, I had swimming this morning. It went pretty okay. A nice solid session, not earth shattering, just doing the work. My swimming went through a pretty big jump when I moved down here and started swimming with Swim Smooth. I am now at the plateau phase that follows a big jump in improvement. It is not that progression has stopped, improvements are still coming, it is just that they have slowed down. That tends to be the pattern these sorts of gains follow. My running has been through something similar recently. I still have to put in the hard yards to maintain what I have gained and to keep gaining, but I don't necessarily go into a session expecting a PB. And I certainly don't get frustrated when I finish a session and it hasn't set my world on fire. Good consistent work is the key.

I walked past a newsagent today and noticed an ad for a cycling magazine, it showed the cover which claimed '32 ways too avoid crashing'. Wow I thought, 32. How many ways can you write 'ride within your abilities' and 'don't ride like an idiot'. Maybe I am mistaken, perhaps I am doing this cycling thing all wrong. Maybe there are people out there who crash so often that they have been hanging out for an article that explains how to stop it from happening. You never know.