Luckily, I am not in this alone. I refused to click on that button until my boyfriend Rick clicked on it too. Heck, I wasn't going to get $1200 deep without a co-partner in crime! I definitely need someone there to help remind me why I am still out training until 8 PM rather than at that bbq that started 2 hours ago! Or maybe it's vice versa. Maybe I need to be telling someone else that they need to be along with me until 8 PM so that I can justify my crazy training schedule and not feel badly about showing up a bit late. Either way, having a training partner is definitely worth it.
Okay, anyway so back to week one. I found myself increasingly TIRED (and cursing my legs for sitting on the couch for 4 months straight rather than running once a week), WAY more hungry, and CALLING more pools than I knew existed on this side of oahu to find out their pool hours at night time.
So on a Friday night Rick finds out that Manoa Pool is open from 6:30PM-8:30PM for lap swim. Perfect. Enough time for us to get in that bike ride after work, pick up food for the bbq, and still get to lap swim.
Now let me tell you a bit about my swimming background. I have been swimming since I was 4 years old (competitively). I have been to A LOT of public pools. Yes, I have been to a pool in Australia where there is a lane 0 (actually quite common), to infiniti pools for lap swim, to pools in barbados, puerto rico, st. croix, and all over the united states. However, I have to say Hawaii can have some interesting pool rules.
So when the lifeguard asked me if I knew the pool rules, I jokingly said.. "umm.. No, why don't you let me know because they are all different out here in Hawaii". And no kidding, I have been to a public pool in hawaii where they fill in all the black lanes before they even allow you to swim in between the lines even if you come there with a friend who you willingly want to share a lane with. However, here are the Manoa Pool Rules:
1) Swim down the pool in One Lane and Back in the Other Lane
2) If you are not completely confused by Rule #1... let us add... that it is in reverse circle swim direction!
Needless to say, it looks kinda like this crazy snake game that I laid out below :-)
After the workout... Rick and I were quite proud that we made it through without any major head on collisions and even got a decent workout in! However, we were a bit taken aback by this craziness and it has been moved to the "last resort" pool option.
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