swimlogblog: no swimming today

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

no swimming today

At my YMCA, they are starting a new thing for summer- if you go to 50 group exercise classes, you get a free t-shirt and water bottle. You also get entered into a drawing for prizes! I am all about this! So, today, instead of swimming I went to my first aerobics class. I went to Zumba. I am completely uncoordinated and my hips do not move like that! I would like to get better though, so I will definitely be going back. I also walked a half mile on the track.
Oh! I can use my YMCA membership here interchangeably with the neighboring YMCAs. Today I discovered that one of those YMCAs has an outdoor pool. Yes! I much prefer swimming laps outide.

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Hi! I'm Stacey... I have started swimming again. I swam competitively for 10 years- YMCA, high school, and then for 4 years in college at Grand Valley State University. I really have not been in the pool all that much since my last college season ended (tear) in Feb 2004. I love swimming. I always have, and I always will. I feel a special "oneness" with the water. It is both a stress release and a challenge. In its basic form, swimming is pure joy for me. However, over the years, unachievable goals, disappointments, and health problems would sometimes get in the way. Despite my love of the water- the way you can sometimes feel every little water droplet when you push off of the wall (the best feeling in the world)!, I have had a hard time getting back into the pool and sticking with it. I know that in recent years, my life has been missing something. I am pretty sure that something is the smell of chlorine! So, I am going to try again, and I am using this blog as a form of accountability! My goal will be to participate in an open water race this year.