I need to swim!! (venting)

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So I'm kinda irked. I've been swimming the majority of my life. I quit a few years ago (not entirely, just the whole 3 hour workout, 6 days a week thing). Well now I have an awesome job (wildland firefighter) but it's out in the middle of nowhere, which I actually love. But the problem is, there's not really any pools around me. The nearest one is a YMCA about 45 minutes away, which isn't bad except that I absolutely cannot be even 30 seconds late for work. Plus we PT pretty hard at work, so doing a workout before hand would be suicide. I work across the street from a big lake where no swimming is allowed (a big tease) and in front of a camp ground that has a tiny polluted pool (another tease). Bah!! I'm frustrated. I'm having chlorine withdrawals. I have two days off where I drive back to civilization, but for the past few weeks I've had so much to do that I haven't made it to the pool on my days off. So I'm just venting. I think I'm going to clean my barracks out with bleach just to get that homely smell again. I now see the arguement behind one of those little pools where the water moves so you can swim in place. I used to think they were pretty dorky, now I think they're cool.
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    Chlorine23, I know how you feel. I just moved back to Ohio, staying at my mum's, and while I have a YMCA a couple blocks from the apartment, there is no Master's team, and I am still a member of the Y in Pittsburgh, so I can't join the Y here until August. I'm going insane. I miss the pool soooo much, and everything I see constantly reminds me that I can't just run off to the pool and swim. It's one thing to not swim because you don't want to, it's another entirely to want to and not be able to.
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    Chlorine23, I know how you feel. I just moved back to Ohio, staying at my mum's, and while I have a YMCA a couple blocks from the apartment, there is no Master's team, and I am still a member of the Y in Pittsburgh, so I can't join the Y here until August. I'm going insane. I miss the pool soooo much, and everything I see constantly reminds me that I can't just run off to the pool and swim. It's one thing to not swim because you don't want to, it's another entirely to want to and not be able to.
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