Swimming Against The Tide
Have started swimming for the last few weeks. This is a new club that has come up on Southern Avenue in the relatively recent past. I have taken the 8:30 to 9:15 pm slot. My school friend Pradip Paul is a member there and organised the form for me for entry at a time when new member enrolment had officially stopped. The facilities at the pool are quite decent for our city. It's of decent size and well lit. But more importantly it is just 600 meters from our house. They have two 25 meter pools. One is for novices and the other is for regular swimmers. We have around 25 regular swimmers in the pool in our batch. But thankfully, a majority of them stand near the shallow side of the pool and chat among themselves. The width is not much but we somehow manage without any major collision. From the shallow side we go up the left flank and come back down the right flank. I usually go for 4x2 laps every evening with adequate rest in between. When I started I could barely swim half the lap i