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May 26, 2005
Swimming Faux Pas
Over the past two days I have spent most of my time walking around in the rain. I walked to work/gym (same building), my other work, school, home, to the pool, to school, home. For most of my walking it was pouring rain. The winds were so strong they broke my umbrella. Then I was just walking in the pouring rain and it was me vs. the elements. All of my sneakers are wet and it is impossible to wear pants to work that aren’t black b/c they would look ridiculous with water stains all over them. I can’t go get my dry cleaning b/c it will just get rained on, but that’s okay b/c it consists of khaki pants I can’t wear anyway. I have to go get my car but I am putting it off until tomorrow so I can run to the dealer instead of walking in the cold rain. I am completely walked out.
I seriously lack pool etiquette. Actually, I don’t know what was going on, but I assume it must have been me. For starters, I was in the wrong lane. I was in the “slow” lane and I am more of a “medium” swimmer. I chose that lane though b/c it was the only one with a single person (the others all had two people in them) in it and I am hardly fast so it seemed appropriate enough. In retrospect, though, I am second guessing what was the least bad thing to do-add a third person to a lane at an appropriate speed or get in the wrong speed lane? The second issue is that the woman I was sharing a lane with got out and a guy got in. The woman and I had been splitting the lane-but the guy seemed INTENT on circle swimming. So I was splitting the lane and he was circle swimming so I think we were just frustrating each other-or at least he was frustrating me-until I figured out what he must have been doing and switched. Isn’t it weird to circle swim with just two people? I didn’t like it. It seemed silly. However, I may have been the one breaking the pool rules. Who knows?
As an FYI, if anyone lives in Boston you can go to the MIT pool for free tomorrow. It’s the end of National Employee Health and Fitness Week. Just bring a business card. Did I mention the pool facilities are beautiful?? I imagine the rest of it is too but Becky can speak more to that.
The swimming was good. It took a while to get there and back (the pool close to my apt is closed this week) and I was exhausted when I started b/c I lifted upper body yesterday afternoon. But after a few minutes all was good.
Again, I am a walking billboard. I was wearing all clothing from different schools I attended-and none the same school as yesterday: a sweatshirt from a college where I took a couple of summer classes, sweatpants from my grad school, and a t-shirt from my HS. If you let me go to school somewhere I will apparently wear your clothes forever. I still have a t-shirt from middle school. Maybe I will break it out tomorrow to keep the streak up. I think that may be it though.
Posted by Audrey at May 26, 2005 01:03 PM