Thie explanation on this page is not bad:
http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-lesson-used-to.php
although I wouldn't myself have used the word "normal". "To be used to" is more to do with something not being a problem.
Of course you will have noticed that neither "I used to go" nor "I am used to going" can be used to inform you about my present habits as such.
"I used to go swimming every Saturday" (I no longer do so)
"I'm used to going swimming in crowded swimming pools". (This does not pose a problem for me).
from the British National corpus:
ACW 809 By now
he was used to spending longer and longer periods alone, yet in that
moment when she walked away he always experienced a brief sense of loss
that made him want to rush after her and beg her not to go.
BMW 12 At just
over six foot, with thick curling brown hair and eyes that owed their
startling blueness to his Irish ancestry, Tom was used to being the
object of female appreciation whilst being slightly puzzled by it.
FRF 3844 He was used to being in control of events, not the victim of circumstance; even so, the situation intrigued him.
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