I got up this morning to swim, since I didn't get to yesterday. When I have swum in that pool before, I have done laps in a diagonal across a very strangely shaped pool. This time, I decided to do "perimeters." Essentially, I swam around the edges of the pool. It was not enjoyable. I kept having to make 60 degree turns, which was annoying. I doubt I will do that again. I counted my strokes and a perimeter took 45 strokes, whereas a 25 meter swim takes about 25 strokes. I decided that two perimeters would be about 75 meters, though I know it was closer to 100, but I was underestimating to make it easier. I ended up swimming 525 before I got fed up, based on my 75 meter estimation.
Ben and I are exercising tonight. I will update when we do it.
Food journal is going ok. I need to start an actual notebook rather than trying to cram it in my planner. :)
**Edit** I just remembered a thought that I had while swimming that I intended to put here, and it is too funny not to share. So, like I said, I had to keep making 60 degree turns because the pool was so oddly shaped. Some of the turns were acute angles (angled toward me) and some of them were obtuse angles (angled away from me). When I would get to a bend, I would contort my body in the process of swimming to get around the angle and sometimes would need to push off from the wall I was just swimming parallel to in order to swim in the new direction. The thought I had was "I feel like a roomba." Or, I guess more appropriately in this case (for those of you who are familiar with aquatic vacuum devices), a "dolphin."
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