1.75 loops
1 hour / 127 laps
ywca pool
The first swim of the year! I started it out of sorts — leaky, fogged-up goggles; leaky nose plug; a stiff neck. But I kept going, lap after lap, and somewhere in the middle it got a little easier. Hovered around 1:40 pace for the whole swim, which didn’t feel hard, but also didn’t feel too easy or slow. Shared a lane with an older man in a red speedo. When I asked him if I could share a lane with him he said (jokingly, I think) as long as you behave!
vision note: As usual, I tried very hard to check the lane for another swimmer. I looked 3 or 4 times — I stared. I thought it was clear, so I got in. Nope, a swimmer. Luckily, I act as if there’s a swimmer there that I can’t see, so it’s not a problem that I couldn’t see him.
Pool friends: another older man in a speedo who was a good swimmer — he liked to do dolphin kick on his back, deep under the water; a woman in a green and black suit, also good, doing a steady freestyle; 4 or 5 other swimmers with bright pink, open water swim caps; 1 or 2 bits of fuzz; shimmering shadows on the pool floor; 2 lifeguards in bright red swim shorts.
locker room encounter:
An older woman sitting on the bench, wiping down her wet snow boots. Another women arriving, Shirley wears her boots when she does yoga, so you can, too. (I’m assuming that the first woman forgot her shoes for yoga class and was trying to figure out if she could wear her boots in class — did she?)