{"id":380,"date":"2009-05-01T08:25:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T13:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/?p=380"},"modified":"2009-05-01T08:25:39","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T13:25:39","slug":"just-keep-swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/01\/just-keep-swimming\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Keep Swimming"},"content":{"rendered":"

I swam my 1500 today.\u00a0 That’s a challenge still, and took me about 45 minutes1<\/sup>.\u00a0 But that’s okay.\u00a0 Come June, I don’t think that’ll be a challenge any more!<\/p>\n

I’m even using a cute widdle fishie ticker.\u00a0 Ain’t that sweet?\u00a0 I note, however, that the progress bar is hardly<\/em> to scale.<\/p>\n

Apparently an aquafitness class counts as 2,000 yards.\u00a0\u00a0 I think they’re figuring a certain fitness level2<\/sup> takes about an hour to swim 2000, so that’s how it’s figured. \u00a0 Fair enough.\u00a0 Plenty of people find lap swimming mind-numbing.\u00a0 I don’t, but that’s because that’s my time to work out plots for stories, plan how to pitch projects or plan classes.<\/p>\n

In fact, I spent most of today’s workout working up a proposal to try to teach a bento class that the gym where I work.\u00a0 It’s a community\/rec center more than a classical gym, even if the exercise equipment is really good.\u00a0 They have all sorts of fun classes, so if I can figure out a structure for it and pitch it right, they might let me.\u00a0\u00a0 I was figuring an end of summer-type deal where I have the class and give away to each student a cheap bento box (you can get ’em for a buck through Ichibankan), a colorful bandana and some cute chopsticks as well as a few lessons on how to make and arrange some basic bento food.\u00a0 I’d have a handout with some basics, a list of local stores that sell good Asian food and some places where people can buy bento boxes.<\/p>\n

For the local gym, the pitch would have to be the “healthy lunch for your kids” thing, I think.\u00a0\u00a0 There’s also the frugality hook.\u00a0 But I’m going to have to figure out a way to pitch it as not particularly time-consuming.\u00a0 The way I do it, it really isn’t, but you can go overboard with the cute.<\/p>\n

I’ve had the idea for this class in the back of my mind since I started bein’ a bum, but it’s fleshed out a lot<\/em> more in my mind lately, and I have a considerably better idea of who to talk to for getting this class on the program as well as how the class really ought to be structured.
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1<\/sup>Go ahead, competitive swimmers. Laugh it up.<\/p>\n

2<\/sup>Hmm, close to my own, now that I do the math.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I swam my 1500 today.\u00a0 That’s a challenge still, and took me about 45 minutes1.\u00a0 But that’s okay.\u00a0 Come June, I don’t think that’ll be a challenge any more! I’m even using a cute widdle fishie ticker.\u00a0 Ain’t that sweet?\u00a0 I note, however, that the progress bar is hardly to scale. Apparently an aquafitness class … <\/p>\n

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