Sunday: Wave Country Swim

This morning in a weird small world turn-of-events,  I ended up at the Wave Country parked in lifeguard parking.  Now, my very first job, at the age of 15, was at the Wave Country.  I began in the concession stand and then spent four summers as a Float Girl.  I handed out floats, and it really was the greatest job in the world.  To stroll back in ten years later for the purpose of actually swimming was so strange.

The Wave Pool is set up like the ocean and is really rather small for lap swimming, so our coaches had to be creative.  We jumped in in the deep end and did laps back and forth in the still water, then the waves came on and we did laps in the waves.  The waves seemed rather big and definitely gave me a start in the beginning, but overall the swim was nice.  It was somewhat challenging, I never became bored, and it was a slightly harder workout than just lap swimming in the pool.

Now, I wish I could say that these waves could give me some comparison or scale by which to judge my lackluster performance at Alcatraz.  They did not. All I can say about practicing my swim in the Wave Country pool was that it was fun.  I enjoyed diving into the waves, and I definitely found a rhythm for swimming.  There was never any rhythm or way to find the waves when I swam Alcatraz.

I hope that I will not compare every swim I participate in for the rest of my life to my swim at Alcatraz.  It seems to be going that way right now, however.  Chicago swim on Saturday!!!  Good luck to me!!