Swimming!
I had my first class tonight over at the Thorpe-quarium, and it was great. There were four of us in the class (all girls), and our teacher was a young woman from Brazil. Two of the students were very new to swimming, while the Irish chick and myself were further along. We started with the basics – blowing bubbles under the water. Then we moved on to floating and kicking, first with kickboards and fun noodles but eventually without. Nothing too taxing, but it felt good to start at the absolute beginning and confirm that what I was doing was correct. I’m also proud to tell you that I am the frickin’ Hermione Granger of floating. We were supposed to use the noodles to start, but I tossed mine right away and showed the teacher that I could do it without.(I think it’s my pot belly. I have natural buoyancy.) The other girls were all nice and friendly, and we had a fun time together. I can’t wait to go back next week!
M-H
March 6, 2008 — 9:42 pm
Fantastic. I’ll have to work hard so you don’t overtake me. I’m at 1 kilometre a week at the moment.
Kris
March 6, 2008 — 10:20 pm
Ha. It wasn’t much of a workout yet, and I probably “swam” a grand distance of about 50 meters. I won’t be any competition until we actually start moving our arms! 🙂
tracey
March 7, 2008 — 10:14 am
Good on ya, Kris 🙂 See if you can do some slow laps up and down the pool. (I loved catching my reflection off the ceiling! It was like spotting the whale, lol)
Staci
March 8, 2008 — 3:41 am
Natural buoyancy is fun! It always cracked me up to swim with Nathaniel. He’d immediately sink to the floor of the pool while I just floated and floated with no effort at all. I could have found it insulting, but I chose not to. 🙂
Kris
March 8, 2008 — 7:06 pm
Yeah. Rodd pretty much has to be actively moving or he sinks. Like a shark.
M-H
March 10, 2008 — 2:00 pm
About half of my lengths are with the kick board, at the moment. But I’m steadily building up the ‘real’ swimming.