Be Your Own Floatation Device
I'm dripping on my keyboard.
Some of you know I swim laps now on my lunch hour. There's several reasons why, and oddly enough the "fitness" factor is about #4. For fun, I'll count it down for you.
#3 I get a tan 25 minutes at a time
#2 You cannot stress me out in the afternoon, period. It's not possible I love that fact that I can't stress.
#1 I was never very good at it. I've never been a strong swimmer, and that's always really bugged me.
So off I go, with a fully packed bag every day at 11:25. I'm totally out of place there. Everyone else is in their 50's with their speedo uniform navy blue tank suits and their identical goggles and swim caps. I'm a total pool nerd. My hair is far too long and my suit is far too impractical. I splash while I swim, and I have to stop to breathe. They can all roll their heads to breathe in, like you're supposed to do, without breaking stride. That's the part I never really got the hang of.
They're friendlier now. I'm not one of the twenty-year-old tanning girls that lay poolside and chat on their cell phones. I'm not one of the stay-at-home mom's that let their kids run wild for lack of anything else to do. I'm there for business, and they respect that.
The only reason I'm blogging now is that I finally managed 20 laps in the olympic-sized pool in 25 minutes. My laps are quicker, and my recovery time for laps 14-18 aren't as long. It was a simple goal, and I reached it. Yay!
Some of you know I swim laps now on my lunch hour. There's several reasons why, and oddly enough the "fitness" factor is about #4. For fun, I'll count it down for you.
#3 I get a tan 25 minutes at a time
#2 You cannot stress me out in the afternoon, period. It's not possible I love that fact that I can't stress.
#1 I was never very good at it. I've never been a strong swimmer, and that's always really bugged me.
So off I go, with a fully packed bag every day at 11:25. I'm totally out of place there. Everyone else is in their 50's with their speedo uniform navy blue tank suits and their identical goggles and swim caps. I'm a total pool nerd. My hair is far too long and my suit is far too impractical. I splash while I swim, and I have to stop to breathe. They can all roll their heads to breathe in, like you're supposed to do, without breaking stride. That's the part I never really got the hang of.
They're friendlier now. I'm not one of the twenty-year-old tanning girls that lay poolside and chat on their cell phones. I'm not one of the stay-at-home mom's that let their kids run wild for lack of anything else to do. I'm there for business, and they respect that.
The only reason I'm blogging now is that I finally managed 20 laps in the olympic-sized pool in 25 minutes. My laps are quicker, and my recovery time for laps 14-18 aren't as long. It was a simple goal, and I reached it. Yay!