First Open Water Swim......

All day I felt quiet nervous about my open water swim session.....
As soon as we got into the water,  I realised it was not as bad as I first thought. However saying that, when Roland asked us to go to the shallow part of the lake so we could stand up, I was not to keen on that. I really do need to man up!!

Our session included:

Relaxing in the open water

 

Overtaking

 

Sighting: lifting your eyes out of the water and looking where you are going.

 

Drafting:  swimming directly behind, or to the side of and behind, another swimmer

We then swam 600m (Omg it felt like forever!!) but it felt good  :-)

Swimming together

Happy swimmers after our session 

 

After the session..... My feet were feeling extremly frozen at this point!!

I found the session extremely helpful and apart from freaking out at the odd bit of seaweed wrapping itself around me I really enjoyed my first open water experience. Bring on the next open water swim:)