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First swim of the summer.

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First swim of the summer.

John Birmingham
Dec 12, 2022
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First swim of the summer.

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Climbed—very carefully—into the pool this morning after my weights and rowing workout. Made sure to get stinky hot before I took the icy plunge. It’s always confronting, that first immersion after a long break. The worst is the dividing line between wet and dry. It feels like you’re being cut in half.

I didn’t stay in long. Just ten minutes - enough to cool down and clean out the basket in this bad boy. A robot I had on demo. My old sucky pool vac has died so I’m looking at replacing it with a newer model.

It freaks me out a little that you’ve got an electrical device muntering around under water, but apparently it’s only 12 volts.

Hasn’t killed me yet, so I guess we’ll see. It does do a good clean.

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