| Thursday, March 23, 2006 |
| the old man and the sea |
and no i'm not talking about Hemingway. I'm talking about how i got owned by the sea aka the Queens swimming pool tonight. So yeah man, I'm a really bad swimmer. Sooo bad that when i first started swimming here at Queens last year, the lifeguard would walk on the deck alongside of me just in case i didn't make it to the otherside. But with a lesson some weeks back with greg and some pointers by pete, i was thinking that maybe with proper instruction and practice this is something i can conquer. But mang. It's just so humbling, cause today was really the first time in a while that i decided to do lane swims (as opposed to swimming on the diving side so i wouldn't get in anyone's way) and yeah i was in the slow lane, and yeah, started strong with my frontcrawl but by the time that i got to the wall i was already out of breath. I mean is it possible that one's resting heartrate can hit like 200bpm in less than 15 seconds? I was on my way back with the frontcrawl and got so pooped that i had to stand up halfway and walk the rest of the way back (but i made it look like i had goggle problems so the rest of the ppl in the pool wouldn't suspect that it was a lack of swimming conditionion that made me stop) So i decided to switch it up after that and got me a flutterboard to work on my kicks, and yeah i know that i have no legs, but man, everyone else with flutterboards, with the exception of this one girl, was passing me as well. So after 25 minutes of struggling i decided to call it quits. Man. So owned today. So humbled. It's like when I'm swimming, it's a fight for survival. I blame it all on the massive undertows and sharks.
But alas I have not given up just yet. This old man isn't ready to let the sea win this war. To be continued |
posted by DarrenGene @ 1:15 AM  |
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I think Ker would be in the same boat as you (no pun intended). Do you need lessons? I was once certified to go and be certified to teach and lifeguard :) But you have to wait 'til the summer.
And on a semi-related note; do you think that like we were first created to roam shamelessly naked, we were also first created to be able to walk on water? But then because of our sin, we were doomed to stay under the water? Does this make any sense? It's so early. Mind dump.
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200bpm! thats faster than andre 3000 on the drum machine
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flutterboards are so hard to figure out
and once you think you got it, it comes flying out from underneath you and on the way up, it whacks you full in the face
its been about ten years. i havent swam since.
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dude! keep at it!
that goggle idea was pretty clever tho, i gotta say.
i remember when i had to finish timed lane swims for some lifeguarding course... i was hella slow and there was a speed swimmer in the course... he swam all his laps FULLY UNDERWATER (i.e. along the bottom of the pool!)! i would be doing front crawl and i'd look down and see him zoom underneath me like a dolphin or something! what a jerk!
well, i guess what i'm trying to get at here, is i'm glad to find out that that jerk wasn't you. even tho he looked like you.
but yea, keep at it. to humble MYself, i'm gonna try to maybe lift weights! now aint that a B?
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...i remember i used to lane swim in high school i used the goggle technique so much! sometime on front crawl i would close one eye and intentionally open one side of the goggles... that way when i leave the pool i pull the goggle and water comes out too!!...PWNAGE haha
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I think Ker would be in the same boat as you (no pun intended). Do you need lessons? I was once certified to go and be certified to teach and lifeguard :) But you have to wait 'til the summer.
And on a semi-related note; do you think that like we were first created to roam shamelessly naked, we were also first created to be able to walk on water? But then because of our sin, we were doomed to stay under the water? Does this make any sense? It's so early. Mind dump.