{"id":70,"date":"2008-01-29T11:56:35","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T16:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/swimming-open-water-and-writing\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T11:56:35","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T16:56:35","slug":"swimming-open-water-and-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/29\/swimming-open-water-and-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming, Open Water and Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s something just innately satisfying about swimming a mile. Well, I swam an 1800, so that’s slightly over a mile. Took me 48 minutes and change.\u00a0 No, I am not a fast swimmer!\u00a0 For swims like these, I’m grateful for my Otterbox (waterproof casing for an iPod).\u00a0 I was listening to Jim Dale’s reading of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.<\/em><\/p>\n

I wish there were some marathon open water swims where I live. You’d think<\/em> with all the lakes around… I mean hell, Lynne Cox<\/a>, that crazy1<\/sup> woman who swam in the Antarctic spent her early childhood in Manchester, NH!<\/p>\n

I’m not in the least interested in participating in a triathlon, though.\u00a0 I remember bitching last winter and swearing I was gonna try to start an open water swim event. \u00a0 Looks like to get such a thing going, I may have to do just that.\u00a0 Feh. \u00a0 Maybe I could talk to the Master’s team over at my pool and see if there’s something doing I didn’t know about.<\/p>\n

I got some good news.\u00a0 I’ve got a month more on my gym membership than I thought I did.\u00a0 Gives me another month to dig up the money to continue it.\u00a0 I haven’t been doing worth a damn on the weights — at least getting my butt to the gym. \u00a0 For some reason, I’m more likely to stumble outside my bedroom first thing in the morning, and take 20 minutes six days a week to do an upper or lower body workout than I will go to the gym to do a full body workout three times a week.\u00a0 I suppose I shouldn’t sweat it.\u00a0 My body doesn’t care if I lift heavy stuff in a gym or in my home as long as heavy stuff gets lifted!<\/p>\n

But, I am swimming, which is also important.\u00a0 Lately I’ve been swimming on the days I’m not teaching computer classes.\u00a0 Gets me out of the house on days I don’t have <\/em>to work away from my writin’ chair, and ensures I do something besides sit in my writin’ chair all day.<\/p>\n

I have to finish outlining a document for a client today and study for a class in MS Access I’m teaching tomorrow.<\/p>\n

1<\/sup>I use the word “crazy” with the upmost respect. I love to swim and all, but that woman is hard core<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s something just innately satisfying about swimming a mile. Well, I swam an 1800, so that’s slightly over a mile. Took me 48 minutes and change.\u00a0 No, I am not a fast swimmer!\u00a0 For swims like these, I’m grateful for my Otterbox (waterproof casing for an iPod).\u00a0 I was listening to Jim Dale’s reading of … <\/p>\n

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