by Judy Bracken
Like most everyone in NSC, I love to ski, but I also love water in it’s unfrozen form. I am a swimmer, and have been for most of my life. I started swimming on teams when I was 5 or 6, but never took it super seriously like youthful swimmers do nowadays. Consequently, I didn’t burn out and continue to love swimming as an adult. For the past 26 years, I’ve been on a master’s adult swim team, and decided to log my workout yardages starting back in 1996. It seemed to motivate me and helped me stay on track with consistent training. It wasn’t until a couple years ago that I realized my cumulative yardage was in the millions! If you stick with something long enough, by the time you’re my age it might equal a million, maybe even 14,780,748! That is about one third around the world if I was swimming on the equator. I suppose if I continue swimming another 48 years I might make it all the way. Just have to keep going until I’m 110!
Imagine if we had tracked all of our ski miles over the years! Maybe some of you have now, with the new ski trackers. If so, let us know and we’ll publish it here.
