Heading back to the pool today.. hoping to get 1200 yards. May spend half of it just doing the flip over and over. Thanks for the advice.
Can you swim?
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Heading back to the pool today.. hoping to get 1200 yards. May spend half of it just doing the flip over and over. Thanks for the advice.
Swam a lot as a child. Fast forward 40 years and 40 pounds more and found swimming not to be so easy anymore . Lake or river and it's only with a life jacket now.
No, I can not. When I was little I never really wanted to learn, then as I got older I just didn't really care. Still don't. I basically hate being outside in the south (where I live) when it's over 80 degrees because the humidity makes it miserable, so I have very little use for swimming.
Yeah, if only there was something you could immerse your entire body in when it's hot and humid..
I love AC.. It's an invention I couldn't live without. But nothing cools you down better than jumping into a pool.
I love AC.. It's an invention I couldn't live without. But nothing cools you down better than jumping into a pool.
Stay inside then you don't have to cool yourself down from the hot and humidity. And hopping into a pool isn't even a realistic option 99% of the time when I'm out and it's hot and humid.
The heat and the humidity in the South is awful. Like today, 94 degrees with a 93% humidity. F*** that, I'm not even stepping outside into that kind of heat and humidity unless I absolutely have to.
try running in it. I jog in the heat and it makes me immune to the effects.
A few years ago there was a poll among the newscritters who were following the presidential election to determine the worst city in the country. Everyone expected one of the hollowed-out industrial cities of the Great Lakes to be on "top", but instead the runaway "winner" was Houston. The reason: the combo of heat and humidity. My niece just moved there and so I've been checking on what it's like. The other morning there was a dew point of 79 with a temp in the mid-80s. In comparison, Phoenix has been having temps in the 110 degree range but dew points in the 40s. Here in Kentucky we had double 80s (temp/humidity) once back in the 80s and it was miserable enough to remember it 30 years later. That's normal in Houston.
Dew points in the 70s here are not the norm but it's not exactly uncommon either. We literally had a 90/90 the other day ago. Today is going to be a 93/70 if the humidity % now is the same this afternoon.
High 60s has been fairly common this summer because it's been a pretty wet summer.
No, it just rained a **** load the day before and overnight, all the clouds cleared out the next day. All that rain water had to go somewhere.
When I was about 15 we got paid about $3.25 an hour to haul hay..... Figured out I could make $3.50 an hour to be a lifeguard at the town pool and watch the girls swim. I never lifted another hay bale.
Went to boot camp in Orlando and when they found out I had been a lifeguard my job was to get up ever damn morning about 2 am and teach the guys who could not swim how to swim enough to pass that danged test.
I had one guy that ended up swimming ok, but the SOB was afraid to jump off the platform.... after about two weeks of that crap, I threatened to drown his a$$ myself if he did not jump off the platform....
Now I am old and fat and would probably need a lifeguard myself.
When I was about 15 we got paid about $3.25 an hour to haul hay..... Figured out I could make $3.50 an hour to be a lifeguard at the town pool and watch the girls swim. I never lifted another hay bale.
Went to boot camp in Orlando and when they found out I had been a lifeguard my job was to get up ever damn morning about 2 am and teach the guys who could not swim how to swim enough to pass that danged test.
I had one guy that ended up swimming ok, but the SOB was afraid to jump off the platform.... after about two weeks of that crap, I threatened to drown his a$$ myself if he did not jump off the platform....
Now I am old and fat and would probably need a lifeguard myself.
I was the only white dude in the remedial swim class that day. The look on everyone's faces when I walked in...priceless. I made a few friends that day.
My reward was supposed to be working at the pool for work week..... yeah right. I worked in the galley as the "slop master." they sold the "scraps" to the local hog farms (at least that is what I was told) and I had a broom handle and had to make sure there was no plastic or other stuff in the drums and drums of slop before it left the base.......
I worked in the galley too during basic up in Great Mist..Lakes. To this day if I walk by a cafeteria back door or some place like that I can still smell the same smells. Sounds weird I know. Not sure if it's potato's or what.