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Three weeks post swim ultra and I'm back in the pool!! 🥳💪🏼🏊🏽‍♀️

It was a BIG summer of swimming for me taking on my Scilly Swims Challenge to raise money in honour of my Mums 70th birthday & in her memory (Just Giving page still live in my bio 👀) The BIG finish - Scillies in a Day 15km - meant I haven't been in any kind of rush to get back to any kind of swim training!! TODAY I finally felt like it 🙌🏼

So hear we go...time to improve my technique and keep building my base swim fitness 😇

For a free trial of Catch GOLD & £15 off use code LAURENHAYLEYKIM ✨️ [Ambassador]

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#poolswim #swimlife #outdoorpool #strongswimmer #happyfish
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I got kicked out of my swimming club as a teenager. Now I coach thousands of swimmers.

Today I’m the Co-Founder of Catch, the #1-rated swim coaching app globally, & a Director at Reclaim the Sea. Last week I chatted with Rachel Burden on BBC Radio 4’s Café Hope about how I got here.

I started swimming competitively at 9 & loved it. At 11 I got a new coach, & the pressure went up as the joy went down. National medals & Olympic trials followed, then a plateau. I went into a depressive spiral & was eventually kicked out of the club. I felt like a total failure at the time. It turned out to be a blessing.

Years later, a colleague spotted “international swimmer” on my LinkedIn & signed me up as the swimmer for a team triathlon. My first open water swim, in a lake. It turned out swimming could actually be fun. Who knew?!

I moved to Bristol, found a community of swimmers, started coaching them & rebuilt my swimming on my own terms: joyful, adventurous, social & challenging, when we wanted it to be.

That’s the swimming Catch is built on. Coaching that keeps you improving & motivated, without the pressure that pushes people out of the sport.

It also led me to Reclaim the Sea, where we run trauma-informed swimming sessions for people with refugee & asylum-seeking backgrounds - because water should be a place of safety & joy for everyone.

My swimming failure wasn’t all for nothing. It led to something so much bigger than medals.

Listen to the full episode via the link in my bio 🎧
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DISCLAIMER: @catch.swim is not responsible for the empty pool and Spanish sunshine, so yeah, the app is not perfect, yet 😉

But fine, I still said Yes to being an ambassador. #AD

Use code BIANCAFC and every penny goes to @womenintriuk - go and download the app!
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How I’ve spent my time whilst injured from running ⭐️⭐️
🏊‍♀️ swimming!!! with @catch.swim I want a redo of that eve!
🩵 time with my fav people
💐 admiring the BEAUTIFUL flowers @mollycurling got me
🤩 eating some YUMMY food @lutongpinoyuk 
🐶 huggies with miley
☕️ coworking day with @dominikarcher 
😋 more yummy food (sushi burritos in particular)
💆🏼‍♀️ goooddd @garminuk sleep score for once!! and I’ve been loving it!

#weekinmylife #photodump #londonrecs
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