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  "title": "Swimming Lessons Check-in",
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  "description": "A few weeks ago, I wrote about finally starting swimming lessons. Almost two months in, I thought it'd be nice to write a small check-in on how it's going. If I had summarize the past few weeks, it'd be simple: I'm loving it!",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-24T17:01:33+01:00",
  "textContent": "A few weeks ago, I wrote about finally starting swimming lessons. Almost two months in, I thought it'd be nice to write a small check-in on how it's going. If I had summarize the past few weeks, it'd be simple: I'm loving it! Loving it doesn't come as a surprise since I have been in a swimming club at school, and I really enjoyed it. But that's almost a decade - or actually a full decade - ago, and since then I've only been once or twice to the swimming pool. The lessons are structured in 5 levels, from 1 to 5. The lowest are about getting acquainted with the water, floating, doing small things. The highest is almost fully in deep water. After two or three lessons, I jumped to level 3 since I could already do all the necessary basics. Now being in level 3, I'm focusing on the breaststroke - schoolslag -, specifically with the head above water. It's being difficult. Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I'll ask the teacher next lesson. On the back it's quite fine, and crawl on both back and belly is also fine enough I'd say. The goal from now on is also: if something doesn't go well, just turn around and do the rest on the back! Making that a habit is important to when I get to the deep pool. I've also decided going a second time per week to the swimming pool for practicing. I noticed that the entry is cheaper for people taking lessons, so that's nice. I decided to do that last week for the first time, but it turned out to be a bad idea. Last week was also Carnaval's vacation and there were a lot of kids, even on a Tuesday morning. Today I went again, and besides a few older people, I had more than enough space to go back and forth. I think my breaststroke legs are going well, but I'm doing something wrong with my hands (or not enough). I shall ask the teacher on Thursday and keep working on it!"
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