tyki
Guest
Wow, what an intense weekend this has been. Although we prepared as best we could for this class, the intensity of the weekend wore us out.
We started class Friday night, 3 students in the class so there was plenty of time to get individual questions answered during the 4-1/2 hour session. We had all gone over the material and were pumped for class. We did great in the classroom and then selected the rental gear from the shop for Saturday morning. As the back of the van began to sag (only kidding) and the stack of gear piled up, we were eager to get started on Saturday. We headed for home and a good night's sleep.
Saturday morning, we had 3 students, the instructor and an instructor in training to help out. Lugged all the gear into the facility and proceeded with our swim tests, all three passed without a hitch. The practice we had done over the last two weeks was paying off. I didn't even feel out of breath at all. And to think just 2 weeks ago, I was wiped out after a 100 yard swim. We started at 10 AM and worked through till 1:30 before we broke for lunch. Still felt great but feeling a bit of energy drain. The 90 minute lunch break was welcomed. We ate, warmed up, and rested until it was time to start again at 3. Back in the pool from 3-7. I don't think I have gotten dressed and undressed so many times in a single day since I went shopping for wedding dresses 25 years ago. The instructor had us remove and dismantle all the gear between each module, besides the various exercises of removing and replacing gear that was included in the modules. At 7 we got back into dry clothes and headed back to the shop to get the tanks re-filled and to finish our academic modules. Sunday's class would be just my husband and myself as the 3rd student had work commitments, and we only had module 5's pool dives to complete. We finally got home around 1030 and were totally wiped out.
This is where we collided with being conservative.
Sunday morning, my husband woke up with a killer headache. His description of the headache was similiar to when he plays in a softball tournament and doesn't get enough fluids. He had apparently gotten dehydrated. We talked it over and decided he just really wasn't up to getting into the water today. Sooooooo.....I called the pool dive. I went to the facility (didn't have the instructor's phone number) and let the instructor know what was up. Told her that hubby just wasn't up to taking the class today. The instructor said, "No problem, we can schedule the final session for another day. Better to call a dive than overextend." The instructor also offered to let me use the tanks and gear today just to get some extra practice. At this point I wish I had taken her up on it, but I'm not in a race to get the certification. Hubby will be my dive partner for all the dives we want to do in the future. The practice we really need is time getting used to each other in the dive environment.
I guess we just confirmed for ourselves that we will definitely be conservative divers and that we need to continue getting in shape. Yesterday proved to us that we can do it, we just have to pace ourselves and drink lots and lots and lots of H20.
tyki
We started class Friday night, 3 students in the class so there was plenty of time to get individual questions answered during the 4-1/2 hour session. We had all gone over the material and were pumped for class. We did great in the classroom and then selected the rental gear from the shop for Saturday morning. As the back of the van began to sag (only kidding) and the stack of gear piled up, we were eager to get started on Saturday. We headed for home and a good night's sleep.
Saturday morning, we had 3 students, the instructor and an instructor in training to help out. Lugged all the gear into the facility and proceeded with our swim tests, all three passed without a hitch. The practice we had done over the last two weeks was paying off. I didn't even feel out of breath at all. And to think just 2 weeks ago, I was wiped out after a 100 yard swim. We started at 10 AM and worked through till 1:30 before we broke for lunch. Still felt great but feeling a bit of energy drain. The 90 minute lunch break was welcomed. We ate, warmed up, and rested until it was time to start again at 3. Back in the pool from 3-7. I don't think I have gotten dressed and undressed so many times in a single day since I went shopping for wedding dresses 25 years ago. The instructor had us remove and dismantle all the gear between each module, besides the various exercises of removing and replacing gear that was included in the modules. At 7 we got back into dry clothes and headed back to the shop to get the tanks re-filled and to finish our academic modules. Sunday's class would be just my husband and myself as the 3rd student had work commitments, and we only had module 5's pool dives to complete. We finally got home around 1030 and were totally wiped out.
This is where we collided with being conservative.
Sunday morning, my husband woke up with a killer headache. His description of the headache was similiar to when he plays in a softball tournament and doesn't get enough fluids. He had apparently gotten dehydrated. We talked it over and decided he just really wasn't up to getting into the water today. Sooooooo.....I called the pool dive. I went to the facility (didn't have the instructor's phone number) and let the instructor know what was up. Told her that hubby just wasn't up to taking the class today. The instructor said, "No problem, we can schedule the final session for another day. Better to call a dive than overextend." The instructor also offered to let me use the tanks and gear today just to get some extra practice. At this point I wish I had taken her up on it, but I'm not in a race to get the certification. Hubby will be my dive partner for all the dives we want to do in the future. The practice we really need is time getting used to each other in the dive environment.
I guess we just confirmed for ourselves that we will definitely be conservative divers and that we need to continue getting in shape. Yesterday proved to us that we can do it, we just have to pace ourselves and drink lots and lots and lots of H20.
tyki