I was thinking about the "pet peeves" thread. Seems that we should have a thread that is the opposite. Things we love about swimming. (Or is there one already that I missed?)
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The feeling of gliding effortlessly through the water, any stroke feels like that to me when my technique is right. That must be the way marine animals feel all the time.
Listening to 'Max' clean the bottom as you swim. I imagine that there are dolphins in the pool talking to each other.
Warm downs, hot showers and exhaustion.
Having the pool to yourself in the afternoon and swimming into the sunset. Sunbeams through the water. Steam rising off the pool on winter mornings. A pool that looks like glass.
prescription goggles and bubbles... lol, seeing the wall clearly and being able to judge how far from it you are.
male swimmer bodies in any type of suit... you just can't hide what swimming does for the physique
I love it when some of those 20 something, big ole muscle bound weight lifters decide they are going to swim some laps, get in, slap the water, 'swim' head up, get no where fast and I glid on by.
The lifeguard telling your coach that you have the most graceful, even stroke she has ever seen.
The little swim kid asking the lifeguard if he saw that old lady flipturn, and the lifeguard saying, "That's not an old lady, that's Elaine."
The feeling of gliding effortlessly through the water, any stroke feels like that to me when my technique is right. That must be the way marine animals feel all the time.
Listening to 'Max' clean the bottom as you swim. I imagine that there are dolphins in the pool talking to each other.
Warm downs, hot showers and exhaustion.
Having the pool to yourself in the afternoon and swimming into the sunset. Sunbeams through the water. Steam rising off the pool on winter mornings. A pool that looks like glass.
prescription goggles and bubbles... lol, seeing the wall clearly and being able to judge how far from it you are.
male swimmer bodies in any type of suit... you just can't hide what swimming does for the physique
I love it when some of those 20 something, big ole muscle bound weight lifters decide they are going to swim some laps, get in, slap the water, 'swim' head up, get no where fast and I glid on by.
The lifeguard telling your coach that you have the most graceful, even stroke she has ever seen.
The little swim kid asking the lifeguard if he saw that old lady flipturn, and the lifeguard saying, "That's not an old lady, that's Elaine."
