another thirty+ minutes in the pool.  didn’t lose count today, definitely twenty-four laps.  tomorrow i’ll have to break down and go to the gym.  i know i can’t do that a third day in a row.  as it was, i immediately felt yesterday’s swim when i was about halfway through my first lap today.  i’m pretty certain swimming wasn’t nearly so tiring twenty years ago. 

at least three different old peoples commented, with a chuckle, about how they were all in my way and it must be hard swimming laps with so many old folks (her words) in my way.  not one of these commenters bothered to move out of my way.    jerks.

i have also discovered a semi-surprising side effect to swimming laps on my lunch break.  i’ve gone from ghost-pale to perfectly and evenly tanned.  It’s not that being in the sun and getting a tan surprises me, just how darkly i’ve tanned in just two days.  and how evenly – i can’t do this on purpose laying out.  clearly, if i keep this up, i’m going to have to start wearing sunblock.  and since i hate wearing sunblock, i’m thinking i’ll be moving my swimming back to nighttime laps.  which will be necessary soon enough anyhow since spring break crowds will start coming in just a few weeks.