Eluding Tuonela

A friend of mine recently told me about the great feeling re-finding things you loved when you were young but somehow lost touch as an adult. Swimming has been one of those things for me. I absolutely love water. I like the feeling of weightlessness, the alien world of underwater nature, and of course the Finnish Archipelago. The nature hasn't been so much around recently when learning to swim freestyle at local pools but I'm slowly finding the joy of swimming again.

I signed up for a course to learn to swim freestyle properly, and yesterday after six hours of drills and training, something finally clicked. I was able to swim a full 50m without feeling totally exhausted and losing my composure. This was the first time I got a feeling that I might be able to learn this thing after all. My 50m time was pretty slow at 2:09 but this felt like a huge win. I've got this!