After four long weeks without swimming, the Bellevue Aquatic Center Warm
Springs pool is again open. I swam for
almost an hour today. It felt great to
be back in the water. I put on a few
pounds and am a bit less fit for the duration, but am still considerably better
off than I was three months ago when I had not swam in years.
Previously, I always had either Lea or a lifeguard hold my chair and do
a sort of forward/side roll into the pool out of my chair while pivoting off a
grip on the pool ladder. Lea sat in the
car today and the lifeguard was chatting with another lifeguard in the far
corner of the pool. Not wanting to wait
another minute, I used the one brake on my left tire to lock the chair in place
and did my usual splashy entry. The
brake was to keep the chair from following me into the pool. That worked well.
The pool regulars were back in force on day one. The moral of that story seems to be that
swimmers like to swim. There weren’t any
adults in the water that I had not seen there before the break.
I am grateful to have convenient access to a wonderful warm swimming
pool and amenities.
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