Back to the Pool
October 7th 2008 07:19
My wife and I went to Moana Pool before work this morning, for the first time since 2006, I think. We used to go regularly in the mornings, she to swim and me to aquajog – as I’m not much of a swimmer. Today, however, we both went aquajogging, and managed 35 minutes
or so without collapsing completely. However, I was very tired by the time I got to work, as you can imagine, and needed some coffee to get functioning again.
It was interesting to see that some of the people we’d last seen in 2006 were still there, still doing their regular round of the pool (aquajogging gets done in the large diving pool), and still working hard. Some of them do nothing but go round and round. That would drive me crazy. I don’t mind aquajogging if I mix it up a little, holding the floats in my hands and pushing them up and down, or keeping them behind me while I do a kind of cycling round the pool. But just to go round and round, especially if you’re doing it on your own, doesn’t seem exciting to me at all. You may as well just stay home and swallow the diet pills.
I’m not quite sure why we stopped back in 2006. Perhaps it was because I resigned from the shop and then had trouble getting work – and then my mother died at the end of that year, and that changed things again. And then I had odd temp jobs and things were a bit all over the place. And then, of course, we went overseas for nearly six months. So aquajogging went on the back burner – if that’s a place you can put it.
We did a bit of swimming with our family when we were in the UK, but it wasn’t really that energetic a deal, and certainly didn’t wear me out the way aquajogging did today. Hopefully next time we go, I’ll be feeling more energised by the whole thing!
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It was interesting to see that some of the people we’d last seen in 2006 were still there, still doing their regular round of the pool (aquajogging gets done in the large diving pool), and still working hard. Some of them do nothing but go round and round. That would drive me crazy. I don’t mind aquajogging if I mix it up a little, holding the floats in my hands and pushing them up and down, or keeping them behind me while I do a kind of cycling round the pool. But just to go round and round, especially if you’re doing it on your own, doesn’t seem exciting to me at all. You may as well just stay home and swallow the diet pills.
I’m not quite sure why we stopped back in 2006. Perhaps it was because I resigned from the shop and then had trouble getting work – and then my mother died at the end of that year, and that changed things again. And then I had odd temp jobs and things were a bit all over the place. And then, of course, we went overseas for nearly six months. So aquajogging went on the back burner – if that’s a place you can put it.
We did a bit of swimming with our family when we were in the UK, but it wasn’t really that energetic a deal, and certainly didn’t wear me out the way aquajogging did today. Hopefully next time we go, I’ll be feeling more energised by the whole thing!
Piscines1
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