Swimming

I considered attempting a good link blog tonight, but I had a long swim earlier and I'm now too tired to put together anything of value. So I'm just going to write a little randomly.

See, I just joined a swimming group last Monday. I'll be going each Monday from here on out, I hope. Last Monday I went and forgot my goggles at the pool, so when I went today I hoped to reclaim them. Because of the amount of time, and the number of people who use the pool, I didn't hold out a lot of hope. But I was lucky, they'd been turned in and I happily got them back.

Once into the pool I did some underwater swimming for a bit before grabbing some barbells to work on my arms. But there was a problem. The lane markers couldn't be put up because one of the hooks was missing. The lifeguard said it was probably at the bottom of the pool somewhere, so I went hunting. I found it at the deep end of the pool, in nine feet of water. I couldn't get to it. I'm too bouyant. The lifeguard came over after two of us made efforts to dive and couldn't get down far enough. She attempted to snag it with a net, but it was too small and kept falling out. The lifeguard and I suddenly had the same idea at about the same time... why didn't I climb down the net pole? It was easy, and I noticed the added pressure only nine feet down.

Feeling even better after the dive, I spent some time exercising, then chatted with others in the group. The pool is a therapy pool and there is a second even warmer pool that the group moved to after about 40 minutes. So I basically got to sit in a hottub for 20 minutes.

I am now so relaxed that I'm finding it difficult to think.