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Introducing the Aqua-Ettes

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The Aqua-ettes have banded together & rebelled!

I got to the pool & both of the deep lanes were taken with chatting sea horses (svelte & beautiful sea horses of course…) with floaties on.  They were bouncing about without a care in the world and having their own water borne version of The View.

I spent an hour knuckle dragging in the shallow end like a disgruntled, floundering manatee, scraping bits of DNA off of my fingers and toes and leaving it for whatever sea monster haunts the murky waters at night.

I gotta get here earlier…

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Day Two. Rue, dispair & agony on me.

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The bottom of the pool is a frightening place.  Except when you’re me.  Then it’s horrifying.

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And so day two happened.

Three quarters of a mile in the pool while doing what I’ve come to call the “Near Death While Panicking” stroke. 

One of the aqua aerobics ladies stopped me so she could tell me that she and the other ladies could hear me shrieking under water & could I stop.

After coughing out about seventeen gallons of water directly in front of her, I readily complied with even more vigorous exercise by running away.

 
Ps. I’m pretty sure there was a shark in the pool.

 

In The Beginning

ImageMe running at night.

 

Day one

(of many in the new resolve to stop being round.)

 

So, this morning I went jogging for the first time in 10 years. I started off slowly from my house and after much sweat and many tears I went ahead and made it to the second block… 
I’ve decided that round is probably not the best shape for me to be in so I’ll be working on a more oval physique and slowly moving towards the triangle. Being in front of the prep table has taken its toll & my favorite twelve ounce curls aren’t helping either.
Once more into the breach, dear friends!

More to follow on an irregular basis…