Friday, March 19, 2010

Swimming Dreams

You know you spend too much time in the pool when your most recurring dreams are about swimming. It is SO COOL to realize you don't need air.

Sharing a lane with one other person is just okay, unless they are Mr. Splashy, Miss Middle of the Lane, or a Fat Boy. You split the lane down the middle and do your thing. Circle swimming is only JUST OKAY if those involved knows how it should work and are all about the same speed, which is almost never. In my dreams sometimes I'm in a lane with so many people that it's like spawning salmon.

One solution I got from dreamland is to split the lane by dividing the pool horizontally. Some swim on the top layer and the rest swim below on the bottom layer. I have to say I've had some strange looks when I've suggested this to others when it comes time to split a lane. Who needs air???

They (THEY) are planning on closing a downtown facility so now we've got Interlopers checking out our branch and the pool has been really busy and the lifeguards can't shut down lanes and sleep in the office. I dream about pools that are incredible - empty, flat and smooth, Bermuda blue and end at the horizon. Or I get frustrated dreaming that I'm swimming in muck and my short little legs and arms are working hard and I'm getting nowhere because the water feels like molasses. Did you ever swim on land? Now that's a swimming dream that is totally weird. Very weird.

Things change and all of us will have to deal with the place being more crowded. NOTE TO SELF: Elbows out, S.L.B.: this guy ain't gonna take 3/4 of the lane just because I'm skinny and getting old. In my dreams three strokes and I've sailed over the length of the pool to the other end. Way cool.

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