You can see them right away if you walk into any community pool on a Tuesday morning. The fresh swimmers.…
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Around the fourth length of a swim, when the world outside your goggles fades into a gentle, meaningless blur, a…
After a long swim, there’s a certain smell that sticks to hair a subtle, metallic tang that doesn’t quite go…
The majority of drowning incidents are preceded by a specific sound that isn’t screaming. It’s quiet. Even though lifeguards and…
Every time, the water appears calmer than it actually is. Standing at the edge of a reservoir or a flooded…
In adult swim lessons, there is a specific type of panic that almost always stems from breathing. Not the actual…
The same headlines appear every year on the first really hot weekend of the year. A teen enters a quiet…
When the wind subsides and the water takes on the hue of pewter in the late afternoon, a certain silence…
On the first truly hot day of the year, people experience a certain kind of confidence. The kind that, because…
Every January, a certain type of person shows up at the gym with a question they believe has a clear…