I don’t believe I have mentioned it before, but we have an in-ground pool. We put it in 4 years ago or so and if you don’t try to calculate the per-swim cost it’s been great. The idea behind getting the pool was that the kids and their friends would tend to congregate at our house, and so then we could keep an eye on them. So far it’s worked.
Having a pool when you are overweight is interesting. On the one hand, it’s a great opportunity to get some exercise in. On the other hand, you don’t find yourself swimming much because you don’t like to take your shirt off in public. So I don’t use it as much as I would like.
I’ve started trying to use the pool more for exercise lately - last night was the third time in the last couple of weeks that I have swam 50 laps with a timer. Our pool is 20×44 feet with the last 4 feet being steps, so each lap is 40 feet. 50 laps is 2000 feet then, or about 2/5ths of a mile. My times so far have been 21:48, 21:32 and last night, 19:48. I’m going to simply work on getting that time lower and lower.
I don’t exactly glide through the water with grace, but what the hell, exercise is exercise.
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