I decided I'd start up a thread that's unique.
Today, I went to the Aquatic Center that's five minutes away from my house, since the University pool, where my Masters Group and I meet is closed for maintenance (Thank God the maintenance week is almost over). When I went in the Aquatic Center's Natatorium, I saw that the pool wasn't crowded with pool users, (Thank you, God!) dove in Lane 5 and had the Lap pool all to myself for my whole session! Today was TRUELY a priceless swim session.
So I ask, have any of you ever had the wonderful privilage of having the pool all to yourself?
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Oh yes, one of the advantages of living in a small town where there aren't a lot of swimmers is a pool all to yourself in the late afternoon during the summer. The outdoor pool runs east and west so I frequently get to swim into the sunset.
One of the absolute best 'by myself experience' came early one Saturday morning in January a couple of years ago. I had just gotten my first pair of optical lense goggles (uncorrected the eye doctor estimates I see at 20 feet what most people see at 2100 feet). The sun was shining in through the windows down onto the water. I put on the goggles just expecting to be able to see a 'sharp' black line and the wall as I approached it... I couldn't believe my eyes, for the first time in my life I saw the light spiderweb on the bottom of the pool and for the first time in my life I saw a sunbeam through the water. I just couldn't believe it and swam back and forth through the sunbeam... LOL the guard asked me what kind of drill I was doing. Then I noticed something else... BUBBLES... I had never seen a bubble! That started a whole new set of 'drills.' Trying to see how many bubbles my hands made entering the water, trying to catch bubbles on my goggles and even looking under myself and back toward my feet to see if I could see my feet kicking and how many bubbles they were making.
Emmett, I could only think of one thing that is better than a glass smooth lake with moonlight, a glass smooth lake with moonlight, your significant other and no suits.
Oh yes, one of the advantages of living in a small town where there aren't a lot of swimmers is a pool all to yourself in the late afternoon during the summer. The outdoor pool runs east and west so I frequently get to swim into the sunset.
One of the absolute best 'by myself experience' came early one Saturday morning in January a couple of years ago. I had just gotten my first pair of optical lense goggles (uncorrected the eye doctor estimates I see at 20 feet what most people see at 2100 feet). The sun was shining in through the windows down onto the water. I put on the goggles just expecting to be able to see a 'sharp' black line and the wall as I approached it... I couldn't believe my eyes, for the first time in my life I saw the light spiderweb on the bottom of the pool and for the first time in my life I saw a sunbeam through the water. I just couldn't believe it and swam back and forth through the sunbeam... LOL the guard asked me what kind of drill I was doing. Then I noticed something else... BUBBLES... I had never seen a bubble! That started a whole new set of 'drills.' Trying to see how many bubbles my hands made entering the water, trying to catch bubbles on my goggles and even looking under myself and back toward my feet to see if I could see my feet kicking and how many bubbles they were making.
Emmett, I could only think of one thing that is better than a glass smooth lake with moonlight, a glass smooth lake with moonlight, your significant other and no suits.
