Mermaid-mafia and water warrior types of the swimming pool – we salute you!
Poseidon-class, nuclear-powered submarines envy your ability to motor up and down those roped-off water lanes, all the while a picture of liquidy concentration.
What we’re curious about though – besides whether you really can sweat under water- is “What in water-logged tarnation do you aqua-men and ladies think about while you’re, er… ‘kicking back’ ?
It can’t all be about stroke correction and counting laps, can it?
Well, can it?
It can’t. And it most definitely isn’t. Even the most focused, water-tight mind will eventually begin to wander and experience the dreaded ‘laps in concentration’.
When that happens, the lap-swimmers mind ends up resembling less a titanium-plated sleek super-sub and more the type of rickety, driftwood raft Tom Hanks’s character somehow managed to cobble together in CAST AWAY.
Or is you prefer, more like the time Penelope Pitstop teamed up with the Ant Hill Mob to cross the river. Actually, the stroke technique of the two brown hats at the back isn’t that bad.
Dust off the embarrassing speedos and get ready with the leaky googles.
It’s time to take a deep dive into the wacked-out, random thoughts more likely really going on in the chlorine-soaked mind of the humble pool lap-swimmer.
Such a great topic and well-thought-out concept! Love this!
Diana Louise Webb
USA
Two that stick out (to me): dental floss or hair? eeeeeewwww! And racing the “fast person” in the other lane, even tho one tries not to. Has that impulse ever come over you, Glen? lol
That impulse USED to come over me… 30 years ago! These days -. not so much. Tee hee. Nowadays, it’s so much more about just trying to stay in my own lane – physically and metaphorically – and going at my own speed – again, physically and metaphorically.