Back to the pool

[jesse_the_k]

It’s been fifty-nine weeks and a day since I last swam. My pool has created elaborate routines to minimize infection: one-person per lane in 45 minutes blocks; entry at staggered 10-minutes intervals to minimize shared time in locker room. The pool is part of a cardiac rehab clinic, so they've been open to patients but not exercisers.

It’s delicious to be in the water, and I do remember my routines and my strokes.

Last March I’d achieved a 27-minute swim thrice weekly. I’m too impatient to limit myself as much as I should. I did 16 minutes today and then spent four hours just staring straight ahead. More, again on Thursday and Sunday!

How has your body program changed? Any recent signs of improving access?

Comments

[duskpeterson]

Hurrah that you can swim again!

We've been self-isolating for a year now, but we'll be fully vaccinated at the beginning of June. I'm hoping to be able to walk outside in the daytime this summer, but the community transmission here is still extremely high, so we'll see. We did buy an exercise cycle, which I still have to put together. If nothing else, I can open a window near the cycle and get some Vitamin D from the sun for the first time in a year.

[jesse_the_k]

Sending bright sun your way!