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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    Etrain: I'd love to get one of those endless pools, but unfortunately I'm still in apartment status, so there will be no endless pool for me until I can afford to buy a house. And in San Diego that might take awhile. Laineybug: I can't even convince my own crew to want to swim. And actually most of them can't. My captain played waterpolo, but the rest would drown. After we come back from our runs or hikes in 100 degree heat and 30% humidity, they can't understand why I want to jump in the lake. Crazy people.
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    Etrain: I'd love to get one of those endless pools, but unfortunately I'm still in apartment status, so there will be no endless pool for me until I can afford to buy a house. And in San Diego that might take awhile. Laineybug: I can't even convince my own crew to want to swim. And actually most of them can't. My captain played waterpolo, but the rest would drown. After we come back from our runs or hikes in 100 degree heat and 30% humidity, they can't understand why I want to jump in the lake. Crazy people.
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