If the swim only accounts for 10-12% of your tri race, why does it make up 90% of your triathlon troubles and anxiety?
- Bike, no problem.
- Run, easy.
- But the Swim? Every day I talk to triathletes that tell me how they struggle with their swimming.
Maybe you’ll tell me how “bad your technique” is, how “terrible your swim endurance is”. Or perhaps you’ll describe your mental blocks towards swimming and overall feelings of frustration at not seeing major improvements.
Could it be that the novelty of training has worn off and improvements are harder to come by. Either by choice or by default they’ve started to avoid swimming all together. Just like these two triathletes I talked with recently…
Is the swim a “necessary evil”, something that you just have to survive?
No matter how many hours you spend (or avoid) in the water, it never seems to get any easier and you just can’t breakthrough to the next level!
- Session after session.
- Week after week.
- You bike and run times improve.
But your swim still lags behind.
How frustrating!
Eventually it becomes so hard to force yourself to go to the pool. Why would you when you don’t feel like you’re making any progress?
