Eileen Swanson's Tales

I have this love/hate relationship with “swimming,” but I LOVE the water! Sounds funny, huh? You see, I absolutely LOVE being in the water, splashing around, playing, having fun with Belle, floating, swimming if I feel like it, etc……But when I have a set workout where I have to HURT really bad, I am not so much in love with “swimming.” Actually I do love it, but definitely after the fact….when I am all done Just ask Bree or Reid!

The other day Coach gave me a really cool PULL set. I am a good puller, well much better than kicker and so I really have fun when I get to pull. I had a 600 pull, followed by 4 x 300s pull. Lots of it and I felt so good and strong! Sweet! It is so nice when I don’t have to use my legs, especially after a hard run. So, after pulling so much, I got out of the pool and walked to the locker room. While I walked over to the locker room, I ran into a friend who I hadn’t seen in so long. He immediately said this “Hey E, have you been lifting?” Then he touched my arm. ARGH, HA! People say I should take it as a compliment, but I seem to always get this comment. I swear I have been hearing this comment my whole life, it’s my big arms At work, people ask “do you lift?” or “are you a swimmer.?” So funny, I guess it is a compliment HA!

Cheers,

E