Instead, what I discovered was somewhere in between the second and fourth kilometer was what I considered to be the swimmer?s equivalent of a runner?s high! I found that for a period of time after I had been swimming for awhile I would get a second wind then enter a “zone” where my stroke seemed almost mechanical and I felt neither fatigue nor the usual longing to be done with my swim. Instead, I felt I could keep on swimming forever at what was about a three-quarter speed! For the first time in my life, I truly enjoyed swimming.
My new interest in distance swimming made it an activity I wanted to do every day. I found myself going to pools and swimming laps non-stop for over an hour straight and, within four months of returning to swimming, I entered my first rough-water swim and soon after that clocked my first under-thirty minutes at Ala Moana Lagoon.
After a couple of years of swimming regularly, I seemed to get burned out and again let swimming out of my life in favor of other activities.
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