Why all the Swimming?

I am weak in swimming, biking and running and the logical structure of any training program would be to focus more on a weak section. On my end i should be the bike or swim but i have subconsciously been more worried about my swimming. My workouts over the last 2 months will reveal that i spend a disproportionate time in the pool. I spent 1 hour 45 minutes in the pool today doing 6 sets of 10 laps each at rpe 5. I was working on coordinating my kicking and keeping my body horizontal in the water. I was paying attention to the position of my hands as it entered the water. I averaged a slow 15 minutes per set but felt good as i left the pool.

Why is there a personal effort to logged the laps then over cycling or running? Well I have never been much of a swimmer and as I may have mentioned before I have never managed more than 2 laps in the pool of front crawl until the grand old age of 42. As such I needed to get up to speed so i can do justice to any multisport event i participate in.

In the last open water events, I was anxious and probably hyperventilated. The mask was too tight, water too choppy, I was too winded and i was swimming all over the place, situations that did not help my timing at all. But that was not on my mind when I was in the water. I remembered my first event and prayed before i hit the water:" God don"t let me drown!" i think that must be the most fearful thing to happen. the choking and the water in your nose and all the fearful things.

That must be the subliminal message i am sending to myself that motivates me to swim harder in the pool; to improve my aerobic fitness to minimise that phobia footprint from being anything more than a baby size one. Will I be ever rid of that? probably not but I am glad I am facing it. I can change what I am afraid of and face it not in a foolhardy way but to make proper preparations to deal effectively with it.