Marathon Swimming

Marathon Swimming

Today morning while going for swimming it was drizzling. I did not return. I was the first person to jump into the pool overtaking carwalas. Immediately rain became heavy. There were only a handful of faithful swimmers. Many must have returned midway and many others may not have even started from home. Swimming while raining is a captivating experience with water both below and above. Swimming in the pond, river and lake are much more exciting than swimming in the swimming pool. With heavy rain, swimming in the pool had a semi natural feeling. One can fully enjoy the rain when the rain drops hit on your bare body and there is no better place than the swimming pool. Rarely one gets such opportunity in Delhi. Swimmers who missed today’s session should avail the next opportunity and can decide themselves as to which is more enjoyable-swimming in the rain or sleeping in the closed room. After one hour swimming session was over, there were no swimmers in the second shift. So myself and two other boys decided to have a second shift swimming. Thus today I swam about 2 hours covering roughly 1800 Kilometers, sorry meters. One kilometer of swimming will be equivalent to 10KM running.

Despite torrential rain many of my young friends had a 10K run at Nehru Park Chanakyapuri. A big salute to the indomitable spirit of the brave boys. People who search Bahana (Excuse) for anything and everything should learn from these boys how not to make Bahana