on swimming
Swimming has always been a very big part of my life ever since I was born. I was fortunate enough to have a pool in my childhood home. There is a picture of my mom floating on a raft in the pool with moi on her stomach like two days after my birth. Ok, maybe not that soon considering I was born in December. We´ll go with six to seven mths old then. I loved it!
My next door neighbors were like Olympian swimmers so they gave us our swim lessons in the summer. I feel like I didn´t even have to learn though cuz I just KNEW how. I was born ready.
There are so many memories of my childhood that involve a pool and some sort of pool hopping. Hot summer days when you are a kid consisted of just that....pool hopping days! Hop on your bike and hop into a neighbor´s pool, and then change to another and another and next thing you know it´s dark, you are exhausted with raisin fingers and chlorine scented skin. Don´t forget the green hair. I never slept so soundly.
We moved when I was 11 and we had no pool! GASP. Ya, that lasted for one summer and a pool was immediately put in. Smart move mom! This was the beginning of middle school pool parties and high school pool parties. Oh the memories! And I was skinny then wearing a one piece, what was I thinking? I should have been topless rocking a thong.
I think I would have dominated on the swim team and then I found out they practiced at 5am and then again after school got out. Being in a pool at 5am in the middle of winter sounded like my worst nightmare. I was dedicated, but not that much. It was bad enough having to get into the pool during gym class and NO GIRL wanted to get their beloved tresses damp. It´s a death sentence to have a bad hair day at 16.
All of this I thought about today. When I decided to swim laps at my gym for exercise. I bought a new speedo, goggles and a swim cap and I was ready to go. I´m not gonna lie..I hate wearing b suits and esp now in March when I am pale and extra flubby, but whatevs, I still did it. It was glorious. There´s just something about being in the water that makes me calm and I can think so clearly. I also imagine that I´m an Olympic swimmer and that all eyes are on me. Oh wait, it´s just the people in the cafeteria that can see the pool from where they are sitting. Oh well, it will have to do for now.
My next door neighbors were like Olympian swimmers so they gave us our swim lessons in the summer. I feel like I didn´t even have to learn though cuz I just KNEW how. I was born ready.
There are so many memories of my childhood that involve a pool and some sort of pool hopping. Hot summer days when you are a kid consisted of just that....pool hopping days! Hop on your bike and hop into a neighbor´s pool, and then change to another and another and next thing you know it´s dark, you are exhausted with raisin fingers and chlorine scented skin. Don´t forget the green hair. I never slept so soundly.
We moved when I was 11 and we had no pool! GASP. Ya, that lasted for one summer and a pool was immediately put in. Smart move mom! This was the beginning of middle school pool parties and high school pool parties. Oh the memories! And I was skinny then wearing a one piece, what was I thinking? I should have been topless rocking a thong.
I think I would have dominated on the swim team and then I found out they practiced at 5am and then again after school got out. Being in a pool at 5am in the middle of winter sounded like my worst nightmare. I was dedicated, but not that much. It was bad enough having to get into the pool during gym class and NO GIRL wanted to get their beloved tresses damp. It´s a death sentence to have a bad hair day at 16.
All of this I thought about today. When I decided to swim laps at my gym for exercise. I bought a new speedo, goggles and a swim cap and I was ready to go. I´m not gonna lie..I hate wearing b suits and esp now in March when I am pale and extra flubby, but whatevs, I still did it. It was glorious. There´s just something about being in the water that makes me calm and I can think so clearly. I also imagine that I´m an Olympic swimmer and that all eyes are on me. Oh wait, it´s just the people in the cafeteria that can see the pool from where they are sitting. Oh well, it will have to do for now.
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