swimming

I really cannot afford to fall behind with this again. Excluding this one, I still need to write 37 more posts, but I do have 33 topics in a list, at last count so as long as I don't lose the bit of paper I should be fine. I think this will be another short post since I'm not too sure how much I really have to say about this topic. Plus, it's not a moany complainy one since I don't really have much negative thoughts about it.

I went swimming with my friend today - that's what made the topic come to mind. We went to my gym since I managed to get a free day pass for her and spent a few hours messing about in the pool, disturbing other people and chatting in the hot tub. It was great!

I went swimming a lot last summer actually since I'd joined a membership with my sports centre but since I did so many weeks of work experience I couldn't get to the gym on time. That and a friend at the time was swimming all the time, which made me want to. I'm a really competitive person so when he talked about the number of lengths he did, I wanted to beat that, hence the swimming. I'm still quite proud that I managed 50 lengths of the 33.3m pool after a day of work.

But then after the summer, I didn't have much time to go swimming since the timetable switched back to term time and the public sessions were on badminton days or earlier on, when I get back from school. This means that now, I am once again, a rubbish swimmer. And it's not even like I was that great last summer. There is one main reason for this: I only swim backstroke. I don't know, I've always found backstroke the easiest since I mess up the breathing for front crawl and when I don't put my face in the water I can't do it and breaststroke just shouldn't exist. It takes up a lot of energy and you don't get very far and it's just stupid really.

Now, I'm really self conscious and I feel like if I go and try to swim lengths then I'll just embarrass myself and I should just give up. Great attitude, I know.

One thing that I dislike a bit about swimming though is the chlorine. It burns my nasal passages and throat when I accidentally drink some, not to mention the germs that I'll have ingested. It also ruined my nails which I'd only re done yesterday which was a bit annoying. And lastly, it lingers on my skin so I shower at the place then again at home. Oh, and it dries my skin and hair which is unpleasant since I naturally have dry skin and hair and yuck.

I'm getting a bit tired and have stopped knowing what I'm trying to talk about and what point I'm trying to make. I think that means that this is a good ending point.