Just keep swimming

I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to reference a Disney movie but Dory had the best advice for any of life’s challenges. Just keep swimming. Three simple words. They can mean so little or they can mean so very much. Just keep swimming.

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Today they meant exactly that. I just had to keep on swimming. I don’t know why exactly but swimming is a huge weakness for me. I’m not scared of water but I always hated putting my head under water. I never had a traumatic water experience but there was always some fear in me. I trained hard last year and developed some basic skills and swam in my first triathlon. Well more like survived. And that’s why I’m pushing myself to do the triathlon next month. I want to do more than survive but I’m not committed to training.

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