Youch! And yet... amazing!

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I did make it to the lesson, just in time.  My coach, it seems, is a good one.  I may be a poor student, but a good teacher can... cover some of that, having learned to train even rocks.  We worked on my kick, getting my body to sway from side to side, and... a few other things.  Remember, I have had almost no sleep through last night since yesterday...  Memory is... the second thing to go, time being the first?  I set little reminders to help track time to attempt to make it and that did the trick though.

 By the way, that old watch, from the 90's that I had a battery replaced for?  The analog time piece on it is broken.  The digital works just fine though.  It's good, for my own... certainty as memory is and has been a problem... to have a piece or three of evidence, from time to time.

At first my feet began to cramp with the new kick.  It took a bit, but in the final few lap sessions I figured out how to keep the cramping from happening.  But by then the cramps were fairly set in.  I swam a lap or two more, but the cramps put a damper on the thing.  I will probably begin swimming three days a week from now on, save this week.  I have an appointment Friday, at 8:30.  Then again, if I actually make the appointment, then am worth a damn, I might be able to hit the pool on the way home, come to think of it!  No extra gas, either, as it would be right along the way.  We will see.  It's just, I think, with using 15 minutes for going over what I have learned, then 15 minutes of hard swimming and some fun things...  Maybe.  Just... a maybe though.  I pull up lame pretty easy still.  She is really pushing for three swims a week and I am pushing for an accelerated advancement.  I've got to admit, with several of the new things together, I feel like I am... juggling an egg, a cantaloupe, and a water melon all at the same time.  I'll improve, I hope.


I will say that I was... quite impressed just so far with this first session.  My kick, for those last few solo-laps... were amazing!  The speed I added!  If too, my legs are weak, beside the cramps, at least with this new kick style.  Thankfully, at one time, I was a serious swimmer.  Or, I think I was?  She is bending me back to that before my own sessions make true relearning a requirement, or unlearning THEN relearning.  I am pretty sure she would rather not be doing the lessons.  But that she is, and isn't holding back, I am grateful.  I will be out of everyone's hair in a year or two, max.

I've been thinking about it.  I ought to, if this next angiogram shows significant improvement... probably this fall is the next one... I should begin figuring out how to sell my stuff on e-bay, or anywhere I think is... safest, best?  Sell what I can, for a minor bit of cash, enough for a few things on my path.  Money solves many minor details.  I honestly wish I could stay but I do see what is coming.  I have already been declared an enemy of the state, a state which is growing teeth while I watch.  Most of you aren't enemies of the state, per se, so you have only a little to fear, and then only if you don't do what you are told.  Don't worry about veterans, we will take care of ourselves or die, as usual.