I got to go swimming again this morning!  I peeked at the pool before going in the lockeroom.  There was one person in the double-wide slow lane.  Cool, I thought.  Except by the time I got to the pool, there were two people swimming in the slow lane.  No problem, I thought.  I’ll swim between them.  And we were swimming along just fine, when an older man walked over to the pool.  He stood outside looking as we swam back and forth.  Then, he got in the pool.  And stood at the wall for a while.  I hesitated when I got back to the wall, and he told me we had to swim circles, and he proceeded to swim behind the woman on the right side of the lane.  I told the woman on the left side of the lane that we were going to swim circles, and she said, “Oh, I’m done after this next lap,” and she swam straight forward.  I contemplated waiting for her to finish and decided against it.  Something about aerobic fitness or something.  I followed the old man, and I saw him nearly collide with right lane woman.  She didn’t swim in circles.  At all.

Meanwhile, I noticed that left lane woman was out of the pool, so I tried to get in her lane.  Only to be cut off by old man.  So I treaded water for a bit and then decided to go back to the middle of the lane.  When I reached the shallow end, I informed the old man that the right lane woman had left.  He was thanking me when I pushed off the wall again.  I was pretty ticked about the whole incident, but I didn’t want to lose aerobic whatever.  (love how I’m so technical?)

Old man didn’t stay in the pool too long.  A whole lot of trouble for two minutes in the pool, I thought.  But, hey!  I had room to stretch out!  And soon thereafter, the swimbot on the right side of the lane got out, too.  Woo-hoo!  I had the whole double-wide lane to myself!  And to celebrate?  I did an IM.  In the 800th set.  (This means I was over 800 yards into my workout).  My time, 2.53.74, was 12 seconds quicker than my last time on the IM on Tuesday.

Needless to say, I was thrilled.  My total for the day?  1000 yards.