I had a day off work today. I spent most of it on the sofa with the cat (one of my all time favourite places to be), but I did manage to squeeze in a short run with some token intervals (three sets of three mins on, three mins off) and an open water swim.
I love swimming. I don’t actually swim much, because I’m not one of life’s great planners, and so I never manage to get me, my swimming costume, my hat, my goggles, my towel and my money to a swimming pool for the single minute that they set aside for adult lane swimming each day. And I similarly struggle to arrange my life to get to the lake hideously early on a weekend morning or straight after work on a Tuesday.
But my open water swim is in a week and a half, and I had the day off work so I actually managed it.
And it was disastrous. Why is it that as soon as I don a wetsuit and get into a lake that I forget how to (a) swim (b) breathe and (c) navigate? Oh well. At least when you’re in a wetsuit you can’t sink. So I’m sure that on the day, I’ll be fine.
Won’t I?
abradypus 
You had a perfect open water swim practice. Just right to shake out the butterflies and remind yourself what it’s all about.
Bon courage!
Yes you will be fine!
Of course you will be fine and now that you’ve tried it out once all those things will come back naturally!
Oooh, I have monday off and you’ve just given me an idea….open air pool here I come!