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Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - Albert Einstein

back in the day..
April 06, 2003 - 1:10 pm

back in the day i swam for teams. back in the day i'd swim 15,000 yards in a day. that's 45,000 feet or just over 8.5 miles. that's a long ass way going back and fourth in a 25 yard pool. no?

i found an old pair of goggles, so i need a pair of trunks. i found some old speedo type suits, but there'd be no way i'd fit in them.. and i'd probably get arrested under some indencey law if i did. some of the suits are.. damn did i wear this? not because they are small, but the colors.. one of them is this aqua like green/blue, which isn't so bad, but it has floursent orange splotches on it and a bright, bright green seahourse on the ass. yeah, i wore that when i was 18.

of course, our team was good so who cared. i know of two people i used to swim with who made it to olympic trials and i swam against one guy who was in the olympics.

needless to say, i didn't win, or come close to winning, agaist those people. i suppose it would be more accurate to say i happened to be in the pool at the same time with them, than it is to say i raced them.

i have, uhm, four hours to find a pair of trunks and hopefully i'll swim for an hour or so.

it's going to be weird. very weird. it's going to be very frustrating. i'm massively out of shape. i need not to time anything, just swim laps.

with any luck i'll smell the cholorine and get hooked again.. that's my only hope for going on any sort of schedule.. the lure of cholorine fumes.