Taught a swim lesson tonight and was able to get in a few hundred yards before, during & after the lesson.

I’ve been having trouble focusing on my form…it’s like I don’t want to go back to basics, or when I try some of the basic focuses, my stroke doesn’t feel smooth and connected…my breathing doesn’t feel smooth and I get frustrated.

Tonight I decided to do a stroke counting set of trying to start at 16 strokes and increase by 1 with each 25.

By mere fact of trying to attain a specific stroke count, which gave purpose to my swim, I suddenly felt connected and smooth in the water. My first 25 was 15 strokes! I tried to increase the tempo just a hair and hit 15 strokes again. 3rd 25 was 17 strokes and the 4th was 18.

I’ve got no clue what the time was, but at the end I was slightly out of breath and had a "sensation" of a 1:40 100.

What amazed me about that single 100 is that at this point, having worked t hrough a number of focal points over the past 10 months (scores possibly), I still feel like I’m learning all over again.

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