This morning I heard the theme of JAWS when I was swimming in the deep end of the pool …..
I remember when that movie first came out I was so little, it absolutely terrorized me. I was sitting on my mothers waterbed with my older sister and when that theme song came on she would rock that bed and make waves like crazy and I’d scream my head off! I seriously think that is one of the reasons why I can’t swim well in the ocean, always thinking that there is something MASSIVE under the water just peeking up ready to pounce.
When I DNF’d out of the water at the Penticton triathlon ages ago it wasn’t just because I got smacked in the head by accident, there was a MASSIVE sturgeon underneath me, that fish must have been 3ft long and I screamed my head off then saw a diver in the distance and that was it, I was done. Swam to the shore faster than anyone was swimming in the race. Took off my goggles, wetsuit and kicked the sand. I’d like to see if I could do that race again someday, just to overcome that experience.
I only did sprint triathlons before and that was going to be my first regular distance race, I was so pumped however the fish, the diver and the smack distracted me. Next time I’m going to take a bite out of that fish, throw that diver the horns and swim faster to avoid any smackings.
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