Fic Update and Swimming
Sep. 14th, 2010 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amberfocusWell, I've got most of chapter twenty-six of Leap of Faith finished, but not quite. I was hoping to send it off to beta today and get it posted but that was a little too optimistic of me, I think. Still, it's going well, so hopefully I'll finish it up tomorrow.
I went to the gym today. I did a half mile on the treadmill, but my knee really didn't like the unforgiving surface so I think that kind of walking is out for me. I'll try the elliptical or one of the bikes next. I went to the adult lap swim. I had to wait about fifteen minutes in the hot tub (oh, the agony!) for the pool to clear out enough for me to swim, though. I was surprised at how many people were swimming laps. Well, I should say how many people were in the pool. Some of them were NOT swimming laps and there was no life guard on duty then to enforce it. One lady was just bobbing up and down and one guy was floating with the children's floating noodles. I mean, come on. That's just not what LAP SWIM is for. The title is pretty self-explanatory. There was also a lot of swim one length of the pool and then rest for five minutes. I mean, what's the point of that? No cardio at all if you rest that long between lengths. There was only one guy in there that did any serious laps at all. Am I pool snob? I don't know. I just don't like it when people play or goof off during lap swim when I'm there to seriously exercise. I'll reserve a lane if I go at that time of day again.
But I did get a lane eventually and I swam 30 laps. Without stopping except to fix my goggles every few laps because they were all foggy. I still wanted to do more, but time was short and we needed to get back home in time for T getting back from school. As long as I swim my 1/2 mile I'm happy and I did more than that, so it's all good. We'll swim again tomorrow. I think I'll go to the early lap swim and then the kids want to go to the family swim after school, so I'll go again then and decide if I want to do laps or not again. It will depend on my energy levels. If swimming is all I can do, than I want to do as much of it as I can.
I went to the gym today. I did a half mile on the treadmill, but my knee really didn't like the unforgiving surface so I think that kind of walking is out for me. I'll try the elliptical or one of the bikes next. I went to the adult lap swim. I had to wait about fifteen minutes in the hot tub (oh, the agony!) for the pool to clear out enough for me to swim, though. I was surprised at how many people were swimming laps. Well, I should say how many people were in the pool. Some of them were NOT swimming laps and there was no life guard on duty then to enforce it. One lady was just bobbing up and down and one guy was floating with the children's floating noodles. I mean, come on. That's just not what LAP SWIM is for. The title is pretty self-explanatory. There was also a lot of swim one length of the pool and then rest for five minutes. I mean, what's the point of that? No cardio at all if you rest that long between lengths. There was only one guy in there that did any serious laps at all. Am I pool snob? I don't know. I just don't like it when people play or goof off during lap swim when I'm there to seriously exercise. I'll reserve a lane if I go at that time of day again.
But I did get a lane eventually and I swam 30 laps. Without stopping except to fix my goggles every few laps because they were all foggy. I still wanted to do more, but time was short and we needed to get back home in time for T getting back from school. As long as I swim my 1/2 mile I'm happy and I did more than that, so it's all good. We'll swim again tomorrow. I think I'll go to the early lap swim and then the kids want to go to the family swim after school, so I'll go again then and decide if I want to do laps or not again. It will depend on my energy levels. If swimming is all I can do, than I want to do as much of it as I can.
