Swim 9.15.07
September 15, 2007 at 7:43 pm | In Reports, Sports, Surfing/SwimmingAfter going surfing yesterday, I realized that my swimming is atrocious. As a child I spent many summer days in Ohio at the local municipal pool, and I grew up on the shores of Lake Erie, which afforded many ocean-like swimming situations. So the realization that my swimming skills had become atrophied prompted me to do some laps in the pool today, with the intention of doing some swimming on days that I’m not running. I’m hoping to incorporate this cross-training to make up for my recent laxity in running, but also to improve my surfing. I clearly was one of the weakest swimmers out there at Tourmaline yesterday, and I think it affected how much fun I was having.
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Surf 9.14.07
September 14, 2007 at 10:18 pm | In Reports, Sports, Surfing/Swimming
Well, I wasn’t exactly hanging ten today. When I surf it’s more like practicing my floating skills and trying to avoid becoming shark bait. I went out to Tourmaline Surf Park with my friend and coworker B., who despite being in Southern California about 3 years fewer than me, has picked up the sport much quicker than I have. Oh, and he’s mastered beach volleyball in the last year as well. I guess I should chalk up my lack of native-sports abilities to my Ohio breeding; B. is from the Bay Area and at least has some Pacific connection that may explain his prowess.
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