60toSixty

I have been swimming now for over 5 decades. I am both proud and astonished that I can say that. As I mentioned in a previous post, I have been with the same Masters Swim Team for almost 17 years. We have an awesome swim coach who plans intra-Y swim meets so we can do some racing for fun and times. In the past, she has also hosted swims in Lake Travis to prepare us for open water swims. I have a couple on my list in hopes to do them before the end of 2027. One of my earliest 'swim' memories was when I was around three years old. Our family spent most summer weekends at Lake of The Woods club in Ohio. We had an older mobile home that my dad added alternating bunk beds to accommodate all of us and added a wrap around porch for hanging out and eating meals that over looked the extra large fire pit. We were spending time by the pool as a family and I vaguely remember someone pushing me from behind into the pool. Since I didn't really know how to swim, I mostly remember seeing b...