Amber took me to Sebastian Inlet today to let me try my hand at swimming in the wild. Ha :)
The Inlet was a good idea. The swim area is a wide bay that isn't very deep. There wasn't a current, but there were a lot of people in the water. I used beach umbrellas for sighting. Even as I waded out into the water I was freaking out. I don't like swimming in places I don't know. Finally, my foot touched a weed or something on the bottom and I just about jumped out of my skin, diving into the water and refusing to touch the bottom. Yeuch.
But then I just reverted to my training, once I put my face in the water, saw that I couldn't see anything and just started swimming, I was fine.
I figure the swimable portion of the inlet was about 50y across. I swam several laps and tried to just stay in line with my sight object, keep my body in good form. I could probably have gone back and forth all afternoon, but the salt was really getting to me.
I feel better about swimming in the open water now. We'll see how I do in a race.
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