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jackI signed up for the gym, and went swimming, although I'll have a proper induction on Friday.
It feels really good to have swum for an hour, and really good to think "that's plenty, I don't have to push myself absolutely as far as I can, I can leave now, have an evening of other stuff, and come again later in the week, even if only for half an hour."
I swam 65 lengths -- does anyone know if they're 20m or 25m? 25m is the standard, but I can't judge if the pool is shorter because I usually swim at Jesus green. Fitocracy says "yay".
It's ever so strange being in public without my glasses. I can see people, but I can't see faces, so I can't tell if someone is looking at me, so everyone seems very generic, I feel obliged to plaster a goofy grin on my face in case anyone looks at me and thinks I'm scowling because I didn't realise, and it's easy to stare at people I'm thinking "is that a fuzzy pink blob or a person" when I'm completely visible to them.
It feels really good to have swum for an hour, and really good to think "that's plenty, I don't have to push myself absolutely as far as I can, I can leave now, have an evening of other stuff, and come again later in the week, even if only for half an hour."
I swam 65 lengths -- does anyone know if they're 20m or 25m? 25m is the standard, but I can't judge if the pool is shorter because I usually swim at Jesus green. Fitocracy says "yay".
It's ever so strange being in public without my glasses. I can see people, but I can't see faces, so I can't tell if someone is looking at me, so everyone seems very generic, I feel obliged to plaster a goofy grin on my face in case anyone looks at me and thinks I'm scowling because I didn't realise, and it's easy to stare at people I'm thinking "is that a fuzzy pink blob or a person" when I'm completely visible to them.
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Date: 2012-10-30 11:51 pm (UTC)I'm impressed you swam 65 lengths, impressed you swam 65 lengths and kept count, and impressed you didn't get bored (or did you?)...
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Date: 2012-10-31 09:48 am (UTC)I may have muddled the count a little, but even if so, only by one or two, and I think equally likely to be in either direction.
I see I completely muddled the conversion into fitocracy, and intended to enter "just under a mile", but I may actually have entered only "just under a k" which is pretty pathetic for me, but still gave me two levels at once.
I swing between bored and "rush for a length to get my heart rate up and then flop exhausted". But the short lengths and a few slow people in the pool actually helped because I was able to hit a reasonably maintainable pace.