Swimming On The Deep End

My update about swimming late last month aged very fast. Two weeks after, I got moved up to level 5, which means that all of my lessons are now fully on the deep side of the swimming pool. It's going well and I enjoy it a lot. Once I get the Diploma A, I'll be allowed to go swimming laps at the swimming pool. I think my fear of deep water is decreasing, at least at the pool. The swimming pool where we have lessons is not that deep, but it's more than enough to not be able to stand. Nevertheless, I asked the teacher if we could maybe have a lesson on a deeper pool, and she'll check if that's possible. I've gone a few times to the recreation swimming times at the swimming pool because I still want to get some swimming in, and this is the only option since I don't have a Diploma A yet. But it's a lot of gedoe for two reasons: the time and the setting. Recreational swimming starts from 10:00 in the morning, and if I want to avoid a lot of busyness, I need to go early. That time is just too inconvenient, since I need to bike 15-20 minutes to the swimming pool, then change, then swim, then change, then bike back, then shower. That's around 2 hours break during my working day, and I don't like it being that long. The other problem is the setting: recreational swimming is not made for swimming laps. In the morning during week days there's mostly older people swimming laps, but as soon as one kid or one person doesn't do it, everyone must stop. And the non-deep part of the recreational swimming pool is also not that huge, it gets crowded very fast. Swimming laps can earlier in the day, from 7:00 in the morning even, and it's orderly. That'd be perfect for me, but I'm not allowed yet. So I'll need to wait a bit longer. Excited for it! My plan is to start going once a week once I get Diploma A. Then, I'll keep doing the lessons until Diploma C. At that point, I'll probably go twice a week!