Working hard, or hardly working?

Ahhh, Master's Swim. Who would have ever thought I'd be getting up at 5am in the summer to meet you? Crazy as it may be, I've been getting up at zero o'clock two to three times a week this summer to make it to swim practice. Why, you may ask? Well, I'm pretty sure the main reason is because I have peeps, namely Jessi, Steve, Nat, and Rory who hold me accountable. We all agree to go on the same days and even carpool. When you tell people you'll pick them up, there's no backing out!

We usually swim at Whitworth, but in August, they shut the pool down to repaint it. That means we head to Witter pool. It's a outdoor 50 meter pool on Mission. It's nice to change it up a bit. There's nothing quite like swimming hard as the sun comes up. It gives you kind of a natural high. It's also nice to do half as many flip turns than normal since the pool is twice as long. But what really had me excited about swimming at Witter was the remodel they've been working on since last summer. Enter 2 bouncy diving boards and 1 water slide!!! I've been salivating at the chance to play with these toys for months now! A couple of weeks ago, we finally got our chance.

Steve and I headed to the diving boards to do some "synchronized" diving. Or not. According to Rory, our dives were terrible. It then turned into Steve thinking he could actually jump over the flags, which I was sure was going to result in him not being able to have children. He never made it by the way. Unfortunately, I don't have any shots of this!

Up next: the slide! We had to actually ask the manager to turn the water on for us. We were giddy as kids at Christmas! I'm pretty sure she thought we were nuts!

Working my ass off in the pool was definitely worth this!

Only a few more weeks until we are back at Whitworth and swimming from 8:30-10:00pm (puke everywhere!). Until then, I'll continue to be motivated by children's toys to get my butt out of bed at the crack of dawn!