Concetta De Leo

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Even though I was truely looking forward to to going back to the pool today, I still procrastinated going.

I arrived late in the afternoon but still had a good hour to get as many laps swum as I could.

Today I dedicated my swim to some (not all) women I know who have bravely battled breast cancer, both at work and personally. I also included some women who have bravely battled and are still battling other types of this horrendous disease. Check my photos for today for todays names. 

From my wardrobe - My fins don’t fit my swollen feet so I couldn’t use them today, so time to get a new pair that will fit.

I’m still working out how to connect from my phone to my watch in the pool! I’ve downloaded Strava App but I  didn’t connect today. I’ll keep trying with that. I’m logging my laps in manually.

So after a very brief warm up I was able to complete 12 laps of the 25 metre pool today. That’s 300 metres. I only recorded 6 laps in the 25 metre pool from yesterdays debacle. So total of 450 metres so far.

I’m happy with todays efforts. So next swim I plan to try to go even further. If I reach my goal before the month is up I will continue to swim until the very last day of March and see how far I can get.

I’d like to sincerely thank Everyone for your kind and generous donations. I never thought that I would be able to raise the money I have so far. I’ve also  been very touched by each and everyone of you who has donated and left messages of positive support. I am very grateful.☺️ 

I’m looking forward to my next swim and letting you all know how much further I have progressed.

Until then I wish you all to stay healthy and safe. 

Thank you. 🏊🏻‍♀️💗🏊🏻‍♀️💗🏊🏻‍♀️

Day 1

Day 1 didn’t quite turn out how I had imagined it. 

To begin, I haven’t been back in the pool swimming laps for quite a number of years. In that time I have regretfully packed on a considerable amount of weight which I am now trying to get rid of! I’m hoping that while I’m supporting and raising awareness for breast cancer that I can also shed a kilo or two. Win/Win.

So changing into my new bathers that have a dress attached! I felt, and to me, I look quite frumpy But I was not going to let that faze me. I reminded myself why I was doing this. So I told myself to ‘toughen up Princess!’.

I had all the things I needed packed and a new addition to my swim was my Apple Watch, which I have been excited to use in the pool to count laps.

I arrived at my chosen newish aquatic centre, beautiful I might add, and secured my belongings and made my way to the indoor 25 metre pool.

I walk down the ramp and secured a lap swimming lane. This is when it all went pear shaped ( Literally!).

I tried kicking off the edge and into a breast stroke, when my extra round body didn’t compute and I rolled over to one side and I was under water!

Embarrassed I tried to quickly, but very awkwardly, regain my balance and composure as I was looking like I’d never been in a pool before in front of other kids and adults in the ‘fun lane’ next to me.

OK looks like I have to take this back to re-learning how to be in the water. So I had to try and re-train my body to do what my mind was telling it to do. It took a while.

After what seemed hours (30mins actually) I finally got my body doing breast stroke! I even swam the full 25 metres up and back a few times! Yes! I was finally swimming again!

The other set back was my watch couldn’t track any laps because my iPhone was in the lockers and was to far away. I didn’t get out of the pool to put it closer because I was already having a dilemma in the pool re-learning to swim again and I thought getting my swimming legs back was more important.

But today, I am going in soon to do my laps and I’m going to have my iPhone strategically closer and hopefully I can track my laps. Maybe even share them on the socials.

So that was day 1. I’ll update day two (today) hopefully soon.