I had a pretty restful night. But I heard noises in the corner before I went to bed. It could have been outside of the house, but I swear it was inside. So I got my Kendo Shinai and poked around (which is by my bed for protection).
I found nothing. But during my sleep I kept thinking that there might be a mouse running around. I heard the noise on two different occasions before going over to check it out. And then in my sleep I began to think it could be a snake. So we have a snake or a mouse in the house. Or maybe nothing at all.
Other that, I slept pretty well. Although my restful sleep was filled with dreams of swim stroke technique and my bike pedal RPMs. I have to figure out how to know my pedal RPMs. And it might not rain today, which means I can figure it out sometime today.
You know, all week I’ve been thinking, I got to get some laps in at the pool. So I figure Saturday would be perfect. As Saturday approaches I start making excuses of how it's too cold, I’ll get sick, I was shivering last time in the pool despite the it being heated. But I set a time – 3:00PM. Well, the kids didn’t wake up from their nap on Saturday till around 3:00 so I was thinking its getting too late I’ll just do it tomorrow (Sunday/today). Finally I get out of the house to drop them off with my mom at my sisters house but it was a struggle and anything I could think of to keep me from going kept popping in my head. It’s too cold. It’s raining. I need a rest. The football game is on. I need goggles that don’t make me look like I should be snorkeling. I’m hungry. It was easy to come up with one. I stopped at Big 5 and got some cheap goggles and an energy bar. I ate while I drove to the gym and finally got into the pool.
But before that I walked in a really old man laying on the floor of the men’s swim locker room. He said he got dizzy and fell so I ran upstairs to get help. After about 20 minutes of commotion and him taking forever to dial his wife on his cell phone because his glasses were fogging up, he laid on the floor - with Speedos on - and told his wife what had happened. Several of us helped him get back on his feet and he sat down on the bench and got dressed. He said he was okay and one of the staff said he’d check up on him – yeah right. The 24 hr fitness guy disappeared and I never saw him come back down. After the locker room cleared he told me his wife was a retired nurse and would come pick him up. I asked him if his chest hurt, if he blacked out or had any numbness. He said no but he had a pace maker. He just felt dizzy and fell back. For the second or third time in my life I wished I was a doctor. I had no advice for him. So I gave him well wishes and went to the pool.
His wife showed up about fifteen minutes later and I saw her lay him back down on a bench and take his vitals. I kept thinking about life and the future and old age and love. That was true love. Unconditional love. I mean, you stay together and in the end here you are a wife taking care of your husband. I look at that couple and thought of my relationship with Donna right now is probably going to last longer than theirs. One of them isn’t going to make it much longer in life. It could have been him. Dying on the floor of the mens locker room. Just like that. Over. His wife could have been called for a different reason. Instead, she was there to help him sit on the bench, take his blood pressure, and get him home.
I finished the rest of my fifteen laps (750 meters – which is the most I’ve done), got dressed and went up for weight training. I wanted to say something to the couple. To tell them how I marveled at their relationship longevity. To wish them many more years together. The old man was nice to me. Hopefully his wife was the same. She didn’t look like a hard-ass. She looked very calm and caring. Like a nurse should be.
If I see him at the gym again, I’ll make sure to say hi.
So 750 meters. That’s 50 meters short of a half a mile. I used short fins but really didn’t focus too many laps on my kick. I focused on my arms. I tried to remember more technique that I read online – pressing my chest and face into the water, keeping my butt up, turning my head and body instead of lifting my head out of the water. For the most part, I think I have the stroke down. I need to really focus on it doing it slower and really gliding through the water. Last night was the first time I felt like I actually did glide through the water! It was a good swim. 15 laps in 30 minutes. But I take tons of breaks in between. Once to run to the bathroom and pee.
The kids are awake. It’s 6:45.
My weight training was pretty good as well. I increased the weight by ten pounds to some of my sets. So hopefully it shows I’m getting a little stronger. I also lost 9 pounds since November. Being sick helped. LOL.
Okay, time to start the day. Its cold out there.
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