Young Punks vs. The Stud In His Prime

There is something extremely satisfying about physically outperforming an entire group of people - most of who are a decade younger than me. We had the first "lab" for our SCUBA class today. It was a swimming evaluation. I completely smoked 'em. All of 'em. This is what the evaluation comprised of:

1) Swim underwater 25 yards, rest 1 minute, swim underwater 25 yards again (I was the only one able to do it both ways).

2) 25 yard freestyle, 25 breaststroke, 25 sidestroke, 25 your choice of one of those three.

3) 400 yards non-stop.

4) Tread water for 10 minutes - last five minutes we had to pass diving bricks around the circle.

The only hard part for me was having to do it with no goggles. The instructor wanted to see how we'd do without them. Next week we'll start with some of the equipment - I'm guessing just snorkel, mask, and fins. This is something I wanted to do for a long time, and I'm glad I'm finally getting the chance. I'm also glad I am in good enough shape to not make a fool out of myself...unlike a lot of the big frat boys and scarily skinny girls in the class. I honestly thought some of them would either pass out, throw up, or just plain drown.

Yeah, I'm on a ego trip about it...gotta work on keeping that under control...