A sunday swim with friends
Jun. 22nd, 2014 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylHaving decided to skip bouldering in favour of swimming, who should I bump into at the pool but a couple of my bouldering buddies. Fortunately S spotted me before my hat and goggles rendered me completely unrecognisable, then as we were idly chatting while I kitted up, E also appeared from the direction of the changing cubicles. I'm not sure I acquitted myself terribly well at first — my warm-up intervals were a bit of struggle after Friday's swim and I hadn't eaten anything beforehand so I was feeling distinctly drained — but things settled down nicely when I dropped into my usual distance pace and I was still ploughing up and down long after the others had gone.
ETA: less than 24 hours later and everyone in my circle of friends seems to know I went swimming on Sunday morning; as R says, it might as well be front page of the local paper.
She reckons it's because I was wearing Speedos which, while technically true isn't as bad it sounds — I was wearing a jammer rather than classic budgie-smugglers. Now that I've had time to think about it, it probably ought to've been rather more embarrassing than it was at the time. But I think if you swim a lot, you get so used to wandering around in your pants that as long as everyone else is doing it, you don't give it a second thought, no matter how shy you are under normal circumstances...
ETA: less than 24 hours later and everyone in my circle of friends seems to know I went swimming on Sunday morning; as R says, it might as well be front page of the local paper.
She reckons it's because I was wearing Speedos which, while technically true isn't as bad it sounds — I was wearing a jammer rather than classic budgie-smugglers. Now that I've had time to think about it, it probably ought to've been rather more embarrassing than it was at the time. But I think if you swim a lot, you get so used to wandering around in your pants that as long as everyone else is doing it, you don't give it a second thought, no matter how shy you are under normal circumstances...
