Only rich people swim
After suffering a round of particularly harsh shin splints last Monday, I decided that running may not be the best form of exercise for me. I started looking at pools, to see how available one would be for me. Apparrently, only rich people go to pools. Even the public pool in Newark is $7 a visit, which if I go twice a week is $56 a month. Too rich for my blood.
So I’ve had to bring myself to do something I’ve always been against. I’ve always said that a gym membership was a waste of money. Between a cheap set of weights, and free exercise like running, you can get the general exercise needed. But I guess one thing that a gym has that I can’t get on my own is a pool.
Well, after a number of mishaps this post will finally be done. I have already been swimming once (this evening) during this week-long endeavor to write this post. The girl at the desk when I first walked in was disinterested at best, barely gave me a “locker room is this way, pool is there, weight room is upstairs, blah”, and looked more mad that I had interrupted her phone call with my inane questions. But the incredibly chlorinated swim was refreshing, and I definitely felt the burn in my arms when I got home. And at the price of $1.33 per swim, I can’t complain.
