I’ve spent a lot of time in the water, and in 33 years I’ve
managed not to drown. Last week, however, I learned that I have no idea how to actually swim.
One of the main summer activities in our small little town is
swimming. My daughter is in the swim club, many of her friends are part of swim
club, and now I’m part of the essentially geriatric version of the swim club.
I hopped into the water on day one feeling like I could
swim. It took roughly 5 minutes to realize I’d been deluding myself for years.
The task: kick.
This is not me, this is my daughter who can actually swim well |
Really? That’s it. Grab a floating kick board and do 2
lengths of the pool just kicking. I can do that.
Nope. I can’t do that. I could kick until the cows came home (which from the last post we know they are reticent about doing), but I didn’t move.
Everyone passed me. It was like the nightmare where no
matter how fast you run, you can’t seem to get away. Like that, but in the
water. I think tidal movement would have been a more effective means of water travel.
It finally got to the point where the coach told me to put
on flippers.
We were then split into lanes and progressed from there. It became
significantly easier once we could incorporate arms into the circus. I was
finally able to traverse a length or two of the pool.
Even still, our lane was usually asked to do 50 meters,
whereas the other lane was doing 100. Myself and my lane partner decided that
we’d been relegated to the remedial swim lane.
I’ve been swimming (or what I thought was swimming) for
years, but I don’t remember ever just having to kick. It never occurred to me
to try, and I certainly didn’t imagine that I would be useless to the point of
drowning while doing it.
I think part of
the problem is that I have ape-like arms that are longer than I am tall, but I
have freakishly narrow feet. The arm length makes strokes easier and more
powerful, hence the not drowning for years, however the infuriatingly narrow
feet create the impression of trying to swim using gyrating chopsticks. They
are weird. My toes don’t even lay flat. The middle ones sort of jumble up on
top of one another. Makes manicures very hard. As a plus, it does make cramming
my feet into Cinderella-esque shoes much easier, but mostly it’s just weird.
I’m thinking that maybe next week I can focus on floating. I
can float, right?
You need to get a mermaid tail. I just did!! :-) Fin Fun mermaid tails - $150 delivered and converted to CDN money. So excited. You at least have a kid to go to the pool with you. I'm going to be the lone geriatric mermaid lady. (with a crew of people, hopefully including Kathy-Ann watching from the "shore")
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