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"Dear Leonard

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face and to know it for what it is.

At last to know it, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard, always the years between us, always the years.

Always the love.

Always the hours." The Hours, 2000

When we are forced to think about our lives, we tend to retreat into the dangerous comfort of immortality. Life seems to stretch on for years and as you age gracefully in your mind's eye, you do up a list of things you would like to do, later, then, one day.

I want that life now. So it's one hundred and eighty days around my life, my world.

# 1: Swim.

I have never been able to swim til I took classes with my sister earlier this year, twenty four years after I fell out of my first watery home. Even then, I never really swam in a proper body of water outside swimming lessons.

So, the challenge to Me today. Swim.

 

Lewis Pugh - About swimming at the North Pole

Lewis Pugh is, well according to me, one of the best speakers at TED this year so far. It's just unbelievable how he could swim up at the North Pole. The water is below the freezing point of water, and then imagine being in the water for 20 minutes. 

Swimming Pool For Rats

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Giving my rats their first bath. Getting them all "mice and clean". ;)

Exercise for Tuesday Sept 29

I swam for an hour. It was a hard workout- the water aerobic class was bigger than usual, and there were 5 lap swimmers too. This meant that the water was chopping like a windy lake, and each lap swimmer only had a half a lane to work with. I didn't get any real long laps in, but I did consistently swim. All in all a good workout because it was unusually hard.

Thursday's Exercise

I swam last night for one hour. My shoulders were still sore from Tuesday's long swim (600 yards) and I didn't set any new distance records.
The farthest I went for any one set of laps was 200 yards.

Exercise for Yesterday

I swam one hour, and broke my previous distance record with 600 yard swim. My total distance over the course of one hour is over 1700 yards. It takes a lot of warmup laps for me to do a 600 yard swim.

I also walked 45 minutes with the dogs.

Surf's Up - 22

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Jumping off the dock @ Avalon, NJ

Check out the WAVY distorted background caused by the shake of the diving-board!

Lake for us

That's why I like Week-end, too.
Eat something
Swim
Look at Windsurf
Calm

That was my first real try of PicPosterous... All works very well. Network was not good 1 or 2 times... Retry was successful.

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It's a beautiful day for a swim!

Babies of any species are cute. Well, almost any! This little duck was swimming with his brothers and sisters on one of the lakes in Denver's Washington Park.