The Peanut Chronicles

Saturday, April 29, 2006

73:120

73:120. yep, that's right.

I went swimming yesterday. I loved it. LOOOOVEEED IT!! I dropped Nut off at the gym day care and realized that I was stalling on leaving him because I had never left him with anyone else before that I didn’t know personally. It was quite a moment for me, trying to trust strangers with my Nut and being able to let go and realize that the world wouldn’t end if I took some time for myself in the pool. It was hard!

But I digress… I went swimming yesterday. I want to do the Escape from Alcatraz swim in San Francisco, CA. I researched it. This year is sold out, last year I was preggers, and so next year I am game. It’s exactly 1.5 miles from the island to the land. It takes me about 2 hours to do that, I think, as I dive into the pool yesterday. 80 laps is a mile. I haven’t been swimming in over 4 months and even then I was only kicking a few laps a swim. So really, it’s bee maybe about 7 months since I tried swimming at all. Needless to say, I was ready for an ass kicking.

What is 73:120? I would like to say that my ass was kicked at 73 laps and it took me 120 minutes to swim it. I would love to say that. But the truth is so much better. I swan 120 laps (in other words 1.5 miles) in 73 minutes. Guess I was in better shape then I thought.

Now I know very well that the pool is nowhere near as complex (or cold I am guessing) as the water of the ocean. But at least it’s a training start, right? Right! After all that swimming I went and sat in the hot tub, yet another thing I haven’t done in months and months. It was nice too, though I am too self-conscious over the scary flaming stretch marks on my gut to go nude.

Nut, in the kid play area, rocked out in a little swing they had for him the entire time that he was there. I couldn’t help but wonder why he didn’t cry at once. I wonder if he doesn’t have the separation anxiety that I have.

So much more has happened but as Nut is asleep and I am exhausted, I am going to take a nap!