A few days ago, a group of us swam together and at the end of the workout, someone mentioned that they needed to work on treading water, in preparation for the open water swim. I laughed, crossed my legs like a yogi and bobbed along like a rubber ducky. As a naturally buoyant person, I don’t need to work very hard to stay afloat. As a result, I loathe treading water; I find it extremely frustrating, neither moving forward nor relaxing, working hard but not really getting anywhere.
The last few weeks have felt like treading water, I’m working hard in my workouts, but because of my injury I don’t feel like I’m progressing fast enough. I worry that I won’t be able to meet my fundraising goals without completely alienating everyone around me. The holiday schedule made it hard to find pool time, things are busy at work and everyone else seems to be making progress while I thrash around in place growing increasingly convinced that I won’t be able to make it to the finish line.
Some days it feels like giving up would be the easiest route, to just relax, float along with the current and stop working so hard. However, today is not that someday. Today I’m going to keep pushing myself to keep my head above water, even if it doesn’t feel like progress. You see, the wonderful thing about treading water is that it gives you time to look around and get pointed in the right direction so when you finally overcome inertia and start moving again, you end up right where you belong.
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