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Swim Basics Technique Propulsion Swim Sets & Pacing Wetsuits Open Water Dryland Workouts Race Day More Speed! Pool Tools	Many athletes who don't have a swim background avoid tough workouts—have no patience for technique work—fear crowded swim starts—and look for events with short swims! Once you experience improving swim times your mind set will change; you'll look forward to workouts. We're all in this sport because we like a challenge. Some have competitive motivation; some just get personal satisfaction from mastering the distance. Regardless of how driven each of us is, I've never met a triathlete who wasn't thrilled to see some measurable improvement. We enter races to test ourselves, and time counts so we're really not just fitness swimmers. If our performance plateaus, so too does motivation for training. To improve our race day performance we need keep raising the bar, and this can only happen if we're open to trying new techniques and/or new workouts. I was the guy who raced duathlons for the first seven years of my multisport career, mostly because I couldn't swim—OK I feared it. But eventually the revelation hit me as I watched a Triathlon World Championship: If they can do it so can I (it helped that one of my former bike racing peers won his age group that day). Now I really enjoy the feel of a good swim workout. And for me starting a triathlon with a swim is easier (and more fun) than starting a duathlon with a run. “Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile...initially scared me to death.” - Betty Bender
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