Tonight I had my first swim lesson. My instructor was named Dusty. The class was just two of us, me and a guy named Travis.

Today’s lesson was on the free-style stroke. I found out that my left arm comes out of the water too high and this is causing me to have my mouth too low in the water. That is why I breath in water. If I make my stroke longer or stretched out and keep my chin turned down when my left arm (breathing on the left side), is being pulled back, I should not take in water.

We started with kicks. Boy, that is a lot of work. I seem to kick and kick and not go anywhere. At times it seemed like I was going backwards, not true but it seems like it. My hip was talking to me, but it managed through it. Worked on arms and breathing. We put it all together. The class is nice because both of us are not beginners, so I expect to get some good instruction.

Today I walked some 19,528 steps. This is the best to date (using the pedometer).