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[hathycol]

Okay, so I am having a concerted bash at this swimming lark which is all fine and good but that's the last time I go on a bloody Tuesday. Kids! ARGH. I know they have a right to use the pool as well, but swimming lessons are pretty much always on. I learnt how to swim in this exact same pool, as it is quite a big one and they just put a rope down the middle with lessons on the left and normal swimmers on the right. I remember, very vividly, being the one on the left with instructors howling 'SPLASHY FEET!' very loudly so quietly bobbing along on the right hand side is really odd. Still, I can't resent swimming lessons.

What I do flipping resent, though, is the hordes of small children on my side of the pool. Actually, no, I also resent people going too fast and too splashy and making water go up my nose and people looking at my judgingly because my tankini has rolled up and some of my hideous stomach is on show, but the hordes of small children are particularly aggravating. I know they have a right to swim as much as me, and it is a public pool, but STOP WITH THE DIVEBOMBING NEXT TO ME, I AM DESPERATELY TRYING TO HAVE A BREATHER AND FIND THE COURAGE TO DO THE NEXT LENGTH.

That said, I do like swimming when it quietens down a bit - I like the peace and quiet of it, especially after a day at work. And I'm enjoying swimming and doing a bit of exercise, even though I am quite bad at it. Apparently, though, Tuesday is the busiest night of the week so I shan't be doing that again. Friday was nice. Friday is the way forward, I think.

If anyone else can recommend any other forms of exercise that are not a. the gym (I disapprove of gyms in general and definitely personal ways) and b. running then please go for it. I'm open to exercise classes but I do not own a bike for cycling.

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[balthaser.livejournal.com]

How about, you come and spend a day with me and use the mini gym with me at my flat because then I won't have to go on my own and you won't have to put up with other people because there has never been anyone there when I've been (which is maybe twice since I moved in)?

I once went swimming before school (yes it was that long ago) & it was really rather nice to go that early. You realise that swimming will get much more difficult once the summer holidays start which is soonish?

If you wanted a bike I'm pretty sure you could borrow mine (as if I'll ever want it back) as it's been sat in the garage at Mum's for ages.

[shipperkitten.livejournal.com]

Pole dancing :-D

[tau_sigma]

You see, I own a bike but I am a) worried about falling off (my abortive attempt at riding it for the first time did end with me on the floor) and b) would really rather other people didn't see my cycling in my awfully inept and unfit way. In fact, a large part of my problem with exercise is the 'other people' aspect. I get over it with swimming because mostly people don't stare at you underwater (and swimming has the added bonus of leaving you cleaner when you leave than you were when you went in, assuming you shower, which is the opposite to any other form of exercise, which puts me off all those types).

I blether awfully. I could babble an awful lot more about the AWFUL people you find in swimming pools - mostly just annoyingly awful, not actually awful awful - but I will save that for another time.

Personally I like the idea of some sort of martial art or self defense technique for exercise, but again, personally I have the 'other people' and the 'makes you sweaty' problems. :)

[moralrelativist.livejournal.com]

Go for an hour's walk a couple of times a week, if you have the time to spare for it. Conor's lost two stone in the last 18 months just doing that.

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

I find gyms absolutely terrifying, to be honest, so I would rather avoid it.

I have discovered that there is adult only swim sessions! HURRAH FOR LATE NIGHT THURSDAY SESSIONS. So that's good, as an option.

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

Alas, no classes around here in Deepest Darkest Nowhere. NOT FAIR. It looks fun!

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness that is the reason I will not go running because people will SEE ME and it will be AWFUL. And if I'm in a class they will see lots of people but if I am running it is JUST ME and I would argh argh argh argh.

Ten years of dance classes has left me with some very odd neuroses.

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

See, that is a good idea. I need to find a decent walking route, though...

[purplerainbow.livejournal.com]

Dancing!