Swimmingly
Jun. 25th, 2007 01:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackI went swimming at Jesus Green yesterday and it was great.
I just did 13 lengths of Jesus Green, but felt quite cleansed after. My legs felt weak afterwards, and my arms ached a touch this morning, from which I judge it to have been actually a decent workout, and yet easy to *do*, not in constant pain like trying to go jogging :)
I hadn't been swimming for years[1], not since I was at school. Dad and I used to swim quite a lot (often and far, in fact, I was briefly quite selkie).
[1] Except last week, I *had* arranged to go in the cam at the puntmoot, in lead up to taking up swimming again.
I thought it might be too cold, it hadn't been a very summery day, and flirting with raining. But the water was cool, which felt pretty good, and to make up for it, the showers were full and hot, which felt very very good. Though it would be nice to be sunny *sometimes*
I thought I mightn't be able to do it any more. In fact, I was AFAICT, pretty slow -- I can still swim, but not with a very efficient technique any more. But I can get up and down enough that it works rather than doesn't work.
I thought I might be embarrassed at stripping off in public -- my sveltness wars with my tact and my constantness as aspects that appeal people to me the least :) I think the same every time I get a new girlfriend, for that matter. But since Ghoti's party, I decided I might be able to improve it, but didn't see any point worrying about it. And indeed, no-one objected, and somehow when everyone's drenched its different.
It was quite quiet. There were at most half-a-dozen people, all circular swimming, so pretty much no-one's in anyone's way whatever happens. A couple of people in mini-wetsuits (which makes you look like you know what you're doing), a couple of middle-aged men who look like they could swim for leagues, a young couple who seemed to come to swim two lengths and shower together :) A young man in red shorts who practised diving with the lifeguards whenever the middle was clear. I met one of the men in the changing area coming out, and he said he came every day, and highly recommended it.
ETA: And I dropped my watch, but it overfulfulls its waterproof rating, and a nice man found it for me, and I can still manage to scoop stuff up from the bottom in a shallowish end.
I just did 13 lengths of Jesus Green, but felt quite cleansed after. My legs felt weak afterwards, and my arms ached a touch this morning, from which I judge it to have been actually a decent workout, and yet easy to *do*, not in constant pain like trying to go jogging :)
I hadn't been swimming for years[1], not since I was at school. Dad and I used to swim quite a lot (often and far, in fact, I was briefly quite selkie).
[1] Except last week, I *had* arranged to go in the cam at the puntmoot, in lead up to taking up swimming again.
I thought it might be too cold, it hadn't been a very summery day, and flirting with raining. But the water was cool, which felt pretty good, and to make up for it, the showers were full and hot, which felt very very good. Though it would be nice to be sunny *sometimes*
I thought I mightn't be able to do it any more. In fact, I was AFAICT, pretty slow -- I can still swim, but not with a very efficient technique any more. But I can get up and down enough that it works rather than doesn't work.
I thought I might be embarrassed at stripping off in public -- my sveltness wars with my tact and my constantness as aspects that appeal people to me the least :) I think the same every time I get a new girlfriend, for that matter. But since Ghoti's party, I decided I might be able to improve it, but didn't see any point worrying about it. And indeed, no-one objected, and somehow when everyone's drenched its different.
It was quite quiet. There were at most half-a-dozen people, all circular swimming, so pretty much no-one's in anyone's way whatever happens. A couple of people in mini-wetsuits (which makes you look like you know what you're doing), a couple of middle-aged men who look like they could swim for leagues, a young couple who seemed to come to swim two lengths and shower together :) A young man in red shorts who practised diving with the lifeguards whenever the middle was clear. I met one of the men in the changing area coming out, and he said he came every day, and highly recommended it.
ETA: And I dropped my watch, but it overfulfulls its waterproof rating, and a nice man found it for me, and I can still manage to scoop stuff up from the bottom in a shallowish end.
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Date: 2007-06-25 02:02 pm (UTC)I always feel like I've achieved something when I've managed 2! But then I really go to JG to dive :-)
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Date: 2007-06-25 02:24 pm (UTC)And of course, checking, I see that it is parkside which was 25m, (which was the size of the pool in Worcester where Dad and I went, after they rebuilt it), not jesus green, which is actually *90* metres, which means that I didn't swim 0.3km in just under an hour, but 1km, which is more like what dad and I used to try to do -- I was mainly pleased I could still move *at all*.
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Date: 2007-06-25 02:31 pm (UTC)Doesn't that get you cross the channel?
Date: 2007-06-25 02:28 pm (UTC)I would have liked to have done some messing about, but I wasn't really sure of the etiquette; everyone else was swimming up and down, until just before I left. I did some swimming underwater at the end, which is what I used to like.
Re: Doesn't that get you cross the channel?
Date: 2007-06-25 03:05 pm (UTC)Re: Doesn't that get you cross the channel?
Date: 2007-06-25 03:30 pm (UTC)And yes, that makes sense, thanks. Though I'm not sure what would be *best* -- obviously using the other 1/3 for *something* would be better, but probably not on the cards :). Sometimes I'd like to just swim, sometimes I'd like to chat, and sometimes I'd like to mess around with games/diving/underwater, I'm not sure how I'd divide it up if I had the choice :)
Re: Doesn't that get you cross the channel?
Date: 2007-06-25 03:38 pm (UTC)Re: Doesn't that get you cross the channel?
Date: 2007-06-25 04:18 pm (UTC)Re: Doesn't that get you cross the channel?
Date: 2007-06-25 04:31 pm (UTC)LOL. No, please. Keep *it* making me laugh for preference, but feel free to think away at me :)
Re: Doesn't that get you cross the channel?
Date: 2007-06-25 04:43 pm (UTC)Re: Doesn't that get you cross the channel?
Date: 2007-06-25 05:21 pm (UTC)Re: Doesn't that get you cross the channel?
Date: 2007-06-25 11:13 pm (UTC)