I’m wiped. This weekend I finally got the 24 hr fitness membership and this morning I went swimming. It’s been ages since I’ve gone swimming as a workout. So I feel pretty much like a vegetable and can’t think.
BodyQuest is under way and I have the sluggish mental capacity to prove it. The pool is salt water and makes me extra buoyant which is irritating on a lot of levels, primarily that I can’t seem to do an under over. Which is swimming the length of the pool underwater then flip-turning and swimming the length back without breathing.
All my under over’s started out with a push-off and three underwater pulls before the saltwater would suck me to the surface and I would lose momentum. It might actually work better to my advantage in that I will have to stroke down and forward at the same time – doing twice the amount of work to accomplish a simple under over.
The pool is also not quite full length. It looks full length – but it isn’t by like 3.5 yards. So even when I think “YES! I just did 20 laps!” I know it wasn’t really 20 laps. I’ll need to do another 7 laps to account for the shortage, and make an even 20 by full pool length standards – I think, because after all my brain is not functioning very well. So I actually have no idea what I’d need to do to make an even 20 laps. Sheesh. I need coffee. Not just for the mental wake up for to get the saltwater taste out of my mouth.
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