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September 18, 2006
Swimming in the Not So Open Water
Tonight's swimming was fun. We arrived there just as the lane swimming started and for the first 15 minutes there were only 3 people in the pool. Then it filled up and things got tricky as we had our local rocking-like-a-boat swimmer (RLAB) and we had the granny who felt that anyone that dared to splash anything around her (even though she's in the next lane), needed to burn in the fires of hell.
I didn't really make any notice of them, but RLAB and myself were in for a bit of a struggle as to who were supposed to be where in the lane. At some stage he decided to cool down without moving over into a slower lane, which is all fair, as it is wide and we could swim past him. The problem with RLAB swimmers though, is that they kick in different directions and keep the lane pretty much occupied.
It was during one of these overtakes that I got to know his left heel a little better. I stopped at the end and rubbed my very sore lip and made sure there was no blood. Great. Then turned and started swimming, now not so willing to overtake him, but I started moving so that if I moved closer, I wouldn't be in his way. It was out of the blue that he then, as luck would have it, had a particularly wild kick and the next moment I could taste the blood in my mouth.
This time I had indeed bit through the skin and the pain was enough to bring tears to my eyes (as if the water that came in through my goggles at the same time wasn't enough already).
So tonight, I'm doctoring a bit of a thick lip, soothing my eyes, and looking forward to sleeping a little.
Posted by karinm at September 18, 2006 10:03 PM