Good day at the Y

Great to see Ken Hunt at YMCA today.  Good guy.  and good for Dottie, too.  They're an item.

Into the water, dragging in two more lane lines.  Nice water, if a bit warm.

We can chart the relationship between the unaided human and the water on a long scale.  By Unaided I mean no boat, no flotation device--just a swimsuit.  At the extreme left end is Drowning. Somewhere to the right of that is Playing in shallow water, then you have Splashing in deep water holding on to the edge of the pool. Then you see, Never had a lesson but can get from zero to twenty five yards in under 30 strokes.  But before that you have the people who keep their heads above water as they splash or sneak from one end of the pool to the other, their legs trailing deep in the water behind them.  Then you see Ms. Dry Hair, who has a perm (or a wig) that she never wets and demands that other swimmers stop splashing--she still has her feet on the pool bottom.  Ms. Broken Back, who walks right next to the end wall at the shallow end, says "do you have to do that (put out the lane dividers), I'm recovering from a bad back."?  The Walrus, only goes to the lap pool when the lifeguards open up the diving board--otherwise, you'll find him and others like him on the edge of the hot tub, looking like:  a walrus on the docks at Westport Marina.  Somewhere in the middle: people in the water for a swimming workout who don't really care about improving their stroke.  To the right of those are the athletes, who charge hard and get a workout seemingly without having to breathe much, if any, air.  Way off at the extreme right end of the scale, are the Olympians, who are super fit and always working on some nuance of the swimming stroke.  I don't know where I fit.  I'm overweight by about 12-14 lb and can just barely swim 100 yds of freestyle before pooping out, I can do about 30-40 yards of butterfly before it looks like drowning.  Sometimes I belong on the left end of the scale, sometimes in the middle. I'll continue working on my butterfly, even if Keith no longer shows up on Mondays to dole out tips.

Re: the Koreans/Japanese that show up in the shower.  Do they go to the sauna?  Lift weights?  Elliptical trainers?