Don't know how to swim!

[HillSlugger]

I knew how to swim, but when I got back into the water last December to start triathlon swim training I discovered that that I was a really poor swimmer. My kick was a complete mess, I felt like I was flailing, and trying to breathe induced panic. I started private lessons once a week and added in lap swimming a month or two later. It felt really hard because I had to think about everything rather than my body knowing what to do and how to do it. I did a 300m pool swim tri in July and had only swum that distance non-stop twice before. For my 1000m OWS tri in August I knew I could do the distance but I had never done it all freestyle. After my tri season was over I continued swimming and it wasn't until a few weeks ago that I started to feel really comfortable swimming. So, of course, I had to shake things up and try to learn bilateral breathing. I feel completely incompetent again!

Now is a great time to learn to swim. Hopefully you'll be a faster learner than I was