Introduction

[laitaine]

Hi! I'm new here. Well, I've been lurking for a while, but I figured it's about time I introduced myself and my exercise and start tracking what I do.

I'm a dancer, mostly I do Ballroom and Latin, but I've recently starting doing a bit of Blues as well. In a perfect world, I would be both competing and training hard for those competitions, but I'm without a competition partner right now so it's just regular training for me - it's not ideal but it's better than nothing.

I also try and swim 3 mornings a week before work. I was really good last year, then I screwed up my knee (too much vigorous breaststroke without warming up properly I think) so I haven't swum for two months now. Getting back into it is going to be tough (I hate early mornings, though it's always worth it once I'm at the pool), but I do want to swim again.

Occasionally - very occasionally - I run. Usually only late spring through early autumn. I'm very Goldilocks about it: it's too hot or too cold or too windy or it's raining.... This is why I swim, I can't make so many excuses ;)

I dance because I love it and I couldn't live without it - any fitness benefits are purely coincidental! I swim because I want to tone up and get a bit fitter, though losing a few kilos wouldn't hurt either :)

Comments

[spaceoperadiva]

Huzzah for dancing people! We dance a lot at our house. At the moment, we're studying Polynesian dance, but we've taken Ballroom and Latin previously. My son is hoping to go to a Swing workshop with Yuval Hod soon.