How far???

So I've worked out that 1 mile is about 64 lengths in a 25m pool, oh and I've also been told I need to train to swim further as swimming in a pool and swimming in open water are very different!

I may have mentioned before that I'd not done any real swimming since Primary school and as such I'd not experienced the lane system until my first swim last week! Slow, medium or fast lane... Decisions, decisions! Took a gamble and started in the medium lane - this proved to be far too ambitious for my first swim so I moved to the slow lane which was still way above my ability as I am not a very strong swimmer so I have resigned myself to swimming widths; at least until I've built myself up a bit.

Widths in my pool are 12.5m so straight away my 64 lengths becomes 128 widths. Last night I managed 30 widths in a blooming freezing cold pool because the heater was broken. 30 widths sounds pants, 375m sounds even worse but to make myself feel better I've calculated that it was 23% of my mile, that sounds so much more impressive and so from now on I will measure my accomplishments in % of a mile :-)

In my next swim I aim to swim 1/4 mile so watch this space!

Oh and I bought my first pair of goggles today - looking good ;-)