This was a bad idea.

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I tried to become a pro swimmer… and accidentally challenged a British Record holder 😅🏊‍♀️
I’m a marathon runner (2:25 PB) with big Olympic dreams for LA 2028 but with this injury keeping me out on the roads, I’ve been living in the pool. So naturally I had a totally sensible thought: how hard can it be to become a professional swimmer?

Today I head to Loughborough to get a front row seat to Freya’s training, learn how to dive + glide without bellyflopping (pls), and then we go head-to-head in a series of challenges… including one slightly illegal secret weapon 👀

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:44 Meet Freya + pool tour
3:22 Swim gadgets = modern torture (kind of obsessed)
6:12 The challenges + the forfeit 👀
7:28 Skin + Me
10:45 Watching the session… and getting mildly terrified
12:20 Crash course: diving + gliding
14:05 Challenge 1: Dive & glide
15:10 Challenge 2: 50m freestyle
16:35 Challenge 3: 25m (with fins/paddles cheating)
18:05 Challenge 4: secret weapon activated
19:05 Challenge 5: TORPEDO 😭
20:10 Independent adjudicator verdict
21:05 The forfeit...