Quote Originally Posted by Dogmama View Post
I think you're right. I swam today and it was better. It's completely in my head. I thought I couldn't swim 50 yards, so I couldn't. Today I realized that I'm not THAT out of breath at 25 yards, so I turned around & calmly swam at the midpoints. When I thought I could do it - I was fine! When I started thinking that I was struggling...guess what happened?
Awesome!!

Yeah, I think I experienced the same thing with running. "I'm not a runner, ugh, this is hard, this is hard" until... it wasn't. "Oh, wait. I can do this!"

One lap at a time!