The Slide

I joined a "Team Tri" class at my gym, Lifetime Fitness, as something to do on the days that I'm not running. It's not a very serious triathlon class - but it's good for cross training and breaks up my usual routine of just running (jogging).

As a class, we rarely swim, but today we did! I love/hate swimming. I love it because out of the three (running, biking & swimming) it's the one I'm most proficient at and I hate it because I used to be pretty good and now it hurts to just do 500 yards.

Today (I'm not kidding) we spent no less than 20 minutes going down the gigantic water slides. Me and three other women (two of whom were wearing swimsuits with ruffly skirts) giddily climbed the stairs and anxiously awaited our turn. I'm telling myself that this slide routine was a good workout - here's how I figure:

1. Leg workout - going up the (at least 1.5 flights) stairs.
2. Core workout - keeping my balance as I went up the winding stairs and for keeping my torpedo like position as I flew down the slide.
3. Arm workout - pushing myself out of the water to go back to the slide.
4. Mental workout - telling myself I could go down the slide again and this time do a PR.

OK, so maybe I'm stretching on a few of these - but it certainly was fun. We also swam for about 20 minutes and then did about 20 minutes of bouncing around in the pool, doing push ups and getting water in our noses.