Funny story and funny link.

I keep forgetting to post about my little masters swimming adventure on Wednesday.

The pool at the Y opens at 5:30 during the week, but I had been rolling up at 6:30 because it's usually pretty crowded right when it opens. I had to be at work at 8:30 on Wednesday, so I got there right at 5:30. I was the first one there, so I hopped into the first lane and went about my business. (I should point out here that there's only one lane divider rope that just sort of divides the pool in half, and people just use the lines on the bottom to stay in their "lanes." Good thing I finally picked that skill up!) So anyway, I'm in the first lane and about 15 minutes into my swim, another woman (whose name I eventually found out was Sue) got in the "lane" next to me and asked if I wanted to swim circles or back and forth. I said I'd rather do back and forth because I wasn't used to doing circles with other people, and she said that was fine. Ten minutes after that, two guys got in (so now there are four of us in the space of three "lanes") and sort of insisted that we do circles because one of them wanted to do backstroke. I offered to just get in a lane on the other side of the lone rope, and Sue said "no, I've seen you here before--you'll be fine with us!" At this point, I had no idea what the hell was going on, but I ended up swimming with them. Anyway, long story a tiny bit shorter, they were a masters swimming group that meets there every morning. If I had known, I would have picked a different lane to begin with, but it ended up being okay. They definitely made me kick my butt into gear, though, and Sue said I should join them for real. (Apparently, she joined the group by randomly ending up in their lane one morning too.)

This morning, the same lifeguard who was there on Wednesday was on duty and asked me how I liked swimming with the masters. I told her that I felt kind of bad about crashing their lane, but I didn't realize they had a standing thing going on. She said "oh, don't worry about it--they said you should start joining them!" The pool's closed for the next two weeks (grrr!), but I might consider it if going only once or twice a week is allowed. (Heh, and I'm pretty sure they don't know that I only know one stroke. :-p)

On another note entirely, here's a link to a great blog I found the other day: www.crankyfitness.com. Hilarious.