Mulan and Miya have been learning swimming for 30 minutes a week, for the past three years at Swim Lovers' Swim School.
It has been working well for them -- they are both swimming smoothly and they love their time in the water.
But other than that, most weeks we don't get around to slipping on the togs and going for a swim. Crazy really, with beaches and pools so close to us.
So, we decided to change that.
Yesterday, we biked to the Takapuna Pool and Leisure Centre, our local public pool. It's free for kids 16 and under, and I pay just $1 per time as a spectator.
The girls were in the pool for about an hour. For the first 20 or 30 minutes they did laps, then they played the rest of the time.
Mulan swam 20 lengths (667 metres), while Miya swam 12 lengths (400 metres). They both did a mix of all four strokes (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly), while Mulan also did some underwater swimming.
It worked out really well, and we'll try to get there again at least once or twice a week.
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