I've been doing yoga and some free weights, but that's been about it since my season ended two weeks ago.
Today I made sure to get to the swimming pool for the 7:30 morning class. I was so early I had my pick of parking spots, and was greeted by my former co-worker Karen, who had transferred over to the swimming pool in June.
The dressing room still had the scent of cleaning chemicals (nice!) and had only one or two people in it. I spent about 15 minutes water-walking, warming up, when the instructor appeared about 7:25. She was older than I've seen working there, and her playlist was in honor of Veteran's Day, which will be on Friday. The pool was full, but not crowded, as half the group had on flotation belts and were in the deep end.
The music started with "(Coming to) America" by Neil Diamond, and there were some old sounding World War I songs that I don't recall ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" was not one of them"), the Andrew Sisters' "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," "Chattanooga Choo Choo," and a few others that I didn't recognize, with the recovery at the end including a band playing "Amazing Grace" and some other slower pieces. We did yoga stretches in the water for the last few minutes, which was different than the slow stretching exercises of past visits.
After warming up in the spa, I spent a few minutes with my custodial supervisor, Glen, and again with Karen and got a glimpse of the Juniper project that had been going on all summer and they explained the broken door at the Fish Bowl. (One of the night crew accidentally broke it with the floor machine.)
In the dressing room, Karen was mopping up the water as I finished dressing. We had some more shop talk before I headed out.
I feel nicely wrung out. My center of gravity is finally up in my torso.
For more about the song "Chattanooga-choo-choo," click here.
More on the Andrew Sisters
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Today I made sure to get to the swimming pool for the 7:30 morning class. I was so early I had my pick of parking spots, and was greeted by my former co-worker Karen, who had transferred over to the swimming pool in June.
The dressing room still had the scent of cleaning chemicals (nice!) and had only one or two people in it. I spent about 15 minutes water-walking, warming up, when the instructor appeared about 7:25. She was older than I've seen working there, and her playlist was in honor of Veteran's Day, which will be on Friday. The pool was full, but not crowded, as half the group had on flotation belts and were in the deep end.
The music started with "(Coming to) America" by Neil Diamond, and there were some old sounding World War I songs that I don't recall ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" was not one of them"), the Andrew Sisters' "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," "Chattanooga Choo Choo," and a few others that I didn't recognize, with the recovery at the end including a band playing "Amazing Grace" and some other slower pieces. We did yoga stretches in the water for the last few minutes, which was different than the slow stretching exercises of past visits.
After warming up in the spa, I spent a few minutes with my custodial supervisor, Glen, and again with Karen and got a glimpse of the Juniper project that had been going on all summer and they explained the broken door at the Fish Bowl. (One of the night crew accidentally broke it with the floor machine.)
In the dressing room, Karen was mopping up the water as I finished dressing. We had some more shop talk before I headed out.
I feel nicely wrung out. My center of gravity is finally up in my torso.
For more about the song "Chattanooga-choo-choo," click here.
More on the Andrew Sisters
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| Photo from the Andrew Sisters' website |
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