Breathe girl breathe !!

This is what my swimming instructor tells me constantly...These days I'm trying to enjoy the sun while reviving my long forgotten swimming skills..To my utter disappointment, I can do everything a beginner swimmer should be able to do -- bob, freestyle, backstroke, all the drills, everything but BREATHE....and this is driving me nuts...I am the best floater in the class and can float forever on my chest or back, my strokes are elegant but I can't swim more than 3/4 th of the pool..Why ? because I don't breathe well..It sucks...I try so hard yet, eventually each time I turn my head to get air I take in gulps of chlorinated water.....Zora tried everything maybe my head is too high, maybe too low, maybe I dont turn but lift my head, maybe I don't exhale before trying to breathe in.....Nothing is helping me, no amounts of practice nothing....

This is very disappointing for me....My aim when taking this class was to learn to swim decently and at least take 1 lap at a time..But lo and behold this bloody breathing business is nasty....Not only am I completely drained of oxygen and energy when I get out of the pool but I am also heavily filled with a gallon of chlorinated water....That results in a lot of sneezing and of course a rushed visit to the restroom :).......Well there are 4 classes left in the quarter..Who knows maybe by the last class there will be a miracle and I will learn how to breathe and thus swim my first lap across the length of the pool....We already saw a miracle today in Arnie, one of the oldest guys who had never swum ever before joining this class..Today he did it on his own...He went to the deep end and came back to the shallow end of the pool and he did this more than once...We all clapped for him...It must've been very difficult for him to overcome his fear for water and do this !

Talking of sports, did ya'll know that 37 former or current Stanford students are a part of the US Olympics team 2004. ..Good luck to the Kirk sisters, who are the first pair of sisters to be in the Olympics representing the same team, the US swimming team...GO CARDINAL!