I just jammed the second-smallest toe on my left foot doing a flip-turn while swimming today, and it is rapidly turning purple. Yuck.
I promise, this is not going to become a workout blog. Really. But hey, did you catch the part of that last sentence where I told you I did a flip-turn while swimming today? I’m getting to the point where I’m almost good at them. And when I nail one, it feels great. Half a third of the time, though, I chicken out and flip when I’m not quite close enough to the wall, and then I feel like a jackass. Today’s accident was one of those, and I pushed off the wall with just my toes and YOW!
But when I nail a flip-turn, I get to pretend that I’m one of those Olympic swimmers that you see flipping and turning with the underwater cameras and they look so cool. Please, gods, may no one ever film me doing a flip-turn with an underwater camera!
Meanwhile, I do have some knitting content to put up, as soon as I block the thingie in question and get a photo of me wearing it. This whole back-to-blogging thing is seriously cutting into my crafting time.
Ouch!!!
Loved the flip turns then too.
I swam in high school when we lived in Wisconsin. The thrill of swim meets in the pool, while it snowed outside!
Ice your toe.. hope it's not broken. They are a you-know-what-to-heal…ask me how I would know that…
I hope it's not broken. My big toe on my left foot is currently busted and it is NO FUN!
On the other hand, how cool is it that you're doing flip-turns!
I broke that same toe and it took forever to heal! Here's hoping your toe is not broken!
Janet
I hope your toe is healing. I know it's silly, but each time I click on the link to your blog in my favorites and see this, it's like you've hurt it again. I kind of imagine that it keeps getting bumped or something. I hope that is NOT the case! Take care.