September 11, 2011

• It’s A Floater!

  Those of you that have been reading a while know that I do not know how to swim and a year ago or so, I did a post about how I wanted to learn how to swim. Since then I have spent some time just trying to find somebody to each me. Most places only have lessons for kids since it is assumed that most adults know how to swim. I emailed or called a few places with no luck until finally I found out that a hospital in Naperville has swimming lessons through their fitness center. And not just lessons, but reasonably priced lessons; $78 for six weeks. The lessons are not private but they are limited to 6 people a class, which is pretty much perfect. The only problem was that the best time that worked for me was Sunday afternoons at 1 in the P.M. Why was this a problem you ask? Because I’m also a big Chicago Bears fan and the season starts at noon on September 11, the very same day the lessons start. On the other hand, the lessons are only 45 minutes long so while I would miss much of the first half and part of the third quarter, still left me with a chance to see a decent portion of the game.

  So, as I mentioned, today was the first day of the lessons. I listened to the game for the 20 minute drive there. And because I arrived 20 minutes early, I was able to watch some of it on the t.v. that was above the exercise equipment. As for the class, it is taught by a really nice older lady who is, of course, in great shape and probably in her mid fifties. The rest of the class had people that were all older then me and thankfully not very attractive. This was important to me because the last thing I want to do is have the hots for somebody in the class and spring a fucking erection right there in the damn pool.

  The first thing she had me do was put my head under the water and practice breathing. Next she moved onto floating. Now I should stress that while I’ve never been an expert on floating, I have always been a top notch sinker; shit, nobody sinks to the bottom of the pool the way I do. I knew floating would be a bit of a challenge for me. But, after properly learning to breath, soon I was able to float. Yeah, I can float like a sonofabitch.

  At first I thought 45 minutes would breeze by and not be long enough to learn how to swim, but honestly, the 45 minutes seemed to drag because my mind was on the Bears game since I was unable to watch it and the water was kinda chilly. But, I felt that I got a lot done in that 45 minutes; not only did I learn to float, but I kinda learned to float on my back and even was able to half ass swim about five feet or so. And I loved it! I can’t wait to know how to actually swim and be able to do some real swimming in the water and go to the water park. Another thing that was cool was that because I now wear contacts, I was actually able to see underwater. Now I just have to pick me up some halfway decent goggles so I don’t have to use the crappy ones they have there.

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