Just Another Saturday

For the past few Saturdays, I've been getting up early 

to go swimming at a high school pool

on the northeast side of Indy. I waited for the second bus 

at the Federal Court building on Ohio Street. 

It was coolish, but the sun was bright

and I enjoyed the quiet time to watch the city wake up.

On work week mornings, Indy bustles with the frenetic disorder

of people trying to get to work, making time to just enjoy 

the light and the colors a bit more difficult. 

At the pool, I joined a batch of other masters swimmers, 

all of them better and more experienced, 

for an hour and a half of drills and routines 

designed to make us stronger and faster swimmers. 

The first session was miserable, the second 

session even worse, but today was just long.

However, for whatever reason, I did enjoy it,

and I will return, even if to just have the excuse

to be able to be downtown early on Saturdays.