Starting out, I wasn’t that kid who learned to swim at 4 and then competed at the highest level. I struggled as a teenager to teach myself basics.  My first swim assessment in 2015 with my coach Sutton (from whom I’ve learned so much) was pretty much, “Ya can’t swim. Ya swim is crap. Ya swim like shet! But we can work with that.” And I was like, "I know, so let’s go!...

Just keep swimming.

In essence it’s that simple, but most people don’t want to hear it. Swimming for late-starters (aka non-swimmers) is usually the most difficult.  It’s not intuitive nor does it come naturally for most human beings.  Some people genuinely hate it and attempt to "just get by” as they start out in triathlon.  Naturally, most new triathletes start as d...