The Lane of Daily Swimming
Friday, February 14th, 2014 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jesse_the_kI hinted back on the 3rd, that I'd begun two self-improvement programs. The jinx is off one of them. I think it's one reason I've been feeling much less depressed and cranky and I've had fewer headaches, and I want to share and boast.
I've loved to swim all my life. My parents dipped my roly-poly 2-year-old self in the ocean off Maine and I giggled. For the past 16 years I've splashed regularly from 25 – 60 minutes once to thrice a week.
On 26 Dec 2013, I suddenly decided that I could swim daily, and so I began. I mix up my strokes to minimize RSI; my current 20-minute practice includes four minutes warm-up in the deep end, six minutes crawl, six minutes backstroke, and four minutes cool-down with situps and such.
To start I was totally exhausted after that routine. Oh-so-slowly I've reconditioned myself—a marvelous capacity I thought I'd never regain. Now I feel like I could actually do more at the end of 20 minutes.
In the past fifty days, I've swum thirty nine times. (The pool was closed five days, so I'm averaging 86% of the time). I'm proud of myself, and looking forward to tomorrow's swim.
(Yes, it's chlorinated. I've given up soap and shampoo; I apply Aveeno lotion after I rinse off; and MyGuy generously buzzed off most of my hair.)
I've loved to swim all my life. My parents dipped my roly-poly 2-year-old self in the ocean off Maine and I giggled. For the past 16 years I've splashed regularly from 25 – 60 minutes once to thrice a week.
On 26 Dec 2013, I suddenly decided that I could swim daily, and so I began. I mix up my strokes to minimize RSI; my current 20-minute practice includes four minutes warm-up in the deep end, six minutes crawl, six minutes backstroke, and four minutes cool-down with situps and such.
To start I was totally exhausted after that routine. Oh-so-slowly I've reconditioned myself—a marvelous capacity I thought I'd never regain. Now I feel like I could actually do more at the end of 20 minutes.
In the past fifty days, I've swum thirty nine times. (The pool was closed five days, so I'm averaging 86% of the time). I'm proud of myself, and looking forward to tomorrow's swim.
(Yes, it's chlorinated. I've given up soap and shampoo; I apply Aveeno lotion after I rinse off; and MyGuy generously buzzed off most of my hair.)