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Out to sea!

June 22, 2019 (Afternoon)

Exercise Type: Swim

Comments:
Decided to reconnect with the love of swimming I’d developed for the first time at civil wars camp in Greece last summer with a swim along the Bethany shoreline toward Sea Colony. However, it seems my right side is stronger than my left. As I swam down the coast I ended up angling farther and farther from shore without realizing it. Eventually after 20 minutes I heard the lifeguards whistling at me, so I turned and headed in. It took a heck of lot longer than I expected. My mom who unbeknownst to me had been following along on foot told me I’d been really far out and that the lifeguards (whom she’d been chatting with) had all been tracking me progress over their walkie talkies trying to figure out how to get me to come back. As I marched sheepishly back up the beach with her, a group of beachgoers near one of the lifeguard chairs gave me a round of applause.

Later I got another round of applause when I saved a beach fish everyone else was too squeamish to touch.