Swim motivation (Page 2)

Year 8 of triathlon for me. I was like you when I started, hated swimming and only swam enough to be fairly confident I could complete the swim in my first tri.

Fast forward 8 years and I have developed a real love of swimming. I believe that even if I gave up triathlon that I would still swim. It has taken hundreds of hours of swimming and hundreds of thousands of yards to get there. I'm still not fast which makes me crazy but I am comfortable in the water.

Stick with it. Eventually it gets pretty fun (or at least tolerable )

I was definitely in the same category the first two years of doing triathlon. Just hated the swim practice and had to drag myself there - and refused to do drills. Was going 2x per week. About 6 months ago committed to going 3x per week and started to incorporate other than just swimming laps. Got a pull buoy, fins (still can't use them) and went to a swim coach a couple of times just to get stroke analyzed. The final piece is the finis tempo trainer and I feel it lead to a break through - I now go in with a plan and using the different items/swimming different intervals/paces breaks up boredom. I am now much more focused on analyzing the stroke, stroke rate, and its become a lot more fun. The tempo trainer has shown me that I can improve my stroke rate and up the speed and gave me a rhythm. The result has been to go from 2:00 per 100 to 1:50 per 100 in the past 6 months and more confidence in the long distances - not earth shattering but improvement is the best motivator of all.