Breathing

I swam 500 metres today.

I've had some advice, that the big weakness in my crawl technique comes from my breathing. I breathe on the right after every stroke and apparently bring my head right out of the water and look ahead hence wasting a great deal of my effort. I paid a lot more attention to breathing today and think I improved my efficiency moving through the water at the expense becoming a lot more erratic in terms of the direction in which I was heading.

I think I'll get some goggles and maybe even a nose clip so that I can concentrate on only getting my mouth far enough out of the water to take in air, rather than rubber necking like a tourist.