I've been swimming at my school for the last month or so 5 days a week at 5:30 am-- beginning as a self-described poorly trained swimmer and within a month, the woman who runs the morning swim session has told me I have some of the finest natural form she's ever seen (even though I'm not particularly fast yet)

I've gone from swimming barely 10 laps consecutively (and then switching to kickboarding with fins and hand paddle thingies) to currently being about to swim 1000 freestyle and 500 breaststroke without feeling like I'm dying. I can't do that each day consecutively yet-- must give my weenie shoulders a break, but I'm doing significantly better!

Huzzah