Necessary Swimming

Since the holiday, spent mainly (by me) in restaurants and at buddies' barbies, there does not seem to have been much weight loss. My own fears of pain and Alice's encouragement has led to the reinstatement of post work swimming. This involves coming home knackered and hungry and, instead of feeding and resting, getting changed and going down the 36 floors to the pool.

So far we have only managed to get round the pool circumference once but, as you can see when looking down from the 36th floor, that is in fact quite a distance for wimps like us. It will of course increase as time goes by. The only concern is that since it has often been raining and Alice's school run means that on Mondays and Fridays I need to do it by myself then we may not get it fully established as an essential habit.

As you can see, from this old photo taken in Penang, it is obviously far more fun if Alice can be with me and hence her absence is likely to make me avoid the exercise, even though I know it is required. The thing is that I can't wait for Alice to get back and go later since we have a limited time in the evenings. I really can't hack the work unless I am aimed at sleep by ten, we don't get home from work until 6:30 and BBC Prime takes up the hour between 8:30 and 9:30. This is hard to miss since it has things like "Open All Hours", "Only Fools and Horses" and Alice's favourite "My Hero" about Thermoman.

And without her to urge me on there is also the possibility of me defaulting from swimming into floating, which I have to confess I am quite good at. So the future holds a lot of maybe's about this latest effort to reduce weight and hence my pains. I hope we manage to get me at it regularly.