One time I did a sprint triathlon. It was a bunch of years ago, and I can't remember why I wanted to do it. The swim part was in a lake, and I think I had gone swimming maybe twice in preparation. I started swimming like everyone else, but there were so many people that all the thrashing kind of threw me off. Then something touched my leg. Anyway, I got tired after about 30 seconds, so I started dog-paddling. Then I got more tired and decided I didn't care what people thought, so I alternated between the paddling and kind of a back stroke. A race volunteer came over in his canoe to make sure I was okay. I told him I was just slow. I think I was second-to-last overall. So I'm not a swimmer. But guess what? There's a lot else that I can do in a pool that still feels like a good workout. Thank you again to Bonnie for helping introduce me to something that makes me hate being pregnant a little bit less! I wasn't exactly sure how water jogging would work, but Eric said something about needing weights. I started with one of those ankle weights on each foot, but they weren't quite weighing me down enough. I put another set on, but I was still just kind of prancing around. It was better in the more shallow part, but for 3/4 of the length of the pool I could just bob around on my toes. I think our regular gym (pool was closed today in AF) has waist weights, so I'll try those on Monday. I didn't want to get my head wet (and plus I'm still self-conscious about regular swimming (my swimmer brother is going to give me some lessons)), so next I grabbed a noodle and started kicking back and forth. That actually made my legs feel really good and tired, so I did that for about 15 minutes. But I wanted to work my arms, too, so I switched the noodle for those weird foam barbells and did little tricep thingies as I was kicking. It was awesome. I was visualizing how ripped I was going to get. Then I realized that was probably unrealistic, but I think it'd definitely help me be more toned. So...best day at the gym in a long time. Yay.
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