If you didn’t start swimming until you were an adult, you may already know that swimming is an incredibly mysterious thing. There are so many questions in a 35 minute “form-focused” workout…

• Why does my swim cap sometimes fill up with air and start floating off my head?
• How come I can do a bunch of turns and then just can’t even reach the wall with my tipsiest toes? Did the wall move?
• What the hell did my right hand just do?!
• Is this pool hot? I think this pool is hot.
• Ouch. Why can’t I make it through one swim in this pool without whacking my hand on the lane line?
• What is that guy doing? Is there such thing as a backward butterfly? I think he’s making that up.
• Why does water burn when you forget to exhale out your nose during a flipturn?
• I wonder if foggy goggles can just keep getting foggier.  Or is there is a fog maximum saturation point?…do I really need to see anything?
• Ouch! Foot cramp! When was the last time I ate a banana? Should I be eating more bananas?
• Why didn’t I start swimming as a kid?
• When did I start? I wonder if I’m done. I can’t see my damn watch.
• Will there ever be a day when I don’t have to think so much?