you heard it here first

looking back over last year's booklist and seeing the lifeguard manual reminded me that i did, in fact, become a lifeguard last year. good on me! during the class, i was doing a lot of swimming for the class itself and also just because i happened to be at the pool, i would do a few laps. back in the day, at brigadoon, we did a buttload of laps for the lifesaving certification and also any advanced swimming class did miles of laps. we had a big red cross sponsored lap tracking poster on the dining hall bulletin board where anyone could put their name and then "x" out the little boxes indicated miles swum. it was hugely competitive and therefore is of course verboten these days. don't want to make little susie sinks-a-lot feel she's not as good as susie swims-a-lot. forget that miss swims-a-lot doesn't get a chance to feel good about herself.

but i digress.

last year i went swimming. so, i think it's reasonable to expect that i could do that again this year. i like swimming, and it's good for me. how could i go wrong? it requires wardrobe changes and driving to the natatorium, but let's not turn our blessings into causes for complaint, shall we not now?

i thought maybe a good goal would be "go swimming once per month" but the problem with a monthly goal is that if i don't go in january, i'm just screwed right off the bat and have to trash the entire goal.

i've decided on "go swimming 10 times in 2012". no mileage goal, no timeinthewater goal, no calendar constraint. just a simple commitment to go swimming 10 times. easy peasy. i will hopefully get this done before 20 december, so that i can avoid going swimming 10 days in a row... so here's the PLAN for next year -- the GOAL if you will -- at least 10 swimming sessions.

you heard it here first -- 10 swimming sessions in 2012.

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