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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Yay! Go you! *cheers*
As for the flip turn thing…I still remember learning those, and just when I thought I’d gotten them down I tried to do one in a race and flipped too soon. There’s nothing goofier than shooting your feet out backwards…and having them hit nothing. You just sort of go…blurp.
First off, thats awesome.
Second… they have a salt water pool??? Thats weird.
YAY! It’s a start.
I just needed to get a start!
OK, when I say this I am fully aware that my old lifeguard suit is showing… but it would take and extra 3.255 laps to make up the difference, or 6.51 lengths.
The pool by my place is also salt water and I must say that I enjoy getting out of the water and not looking like I have been doing bong hits all day… or having to keep Clear Eyes in my swim bag. I had chalked the extra buoyancy up to my girlish figure… now that I think of it … it is nice to blame it on the salinity.
Mona, Dahhling…
Thank you for the math! I love it!
True! It’s nice not to go to work smelling like you just soaked in a bleach bath and to not have itchy eyes all day.
I love that your lifeguard suit is showing….
I know I’m in good, safe hands