Neat! I can't do the compression on my feet, but when I go swimming now, I use a compression cuff to hold my knee together. After about 20 years unable to get in the water without my knee dislocating, I can now swim again. That's freedom for me; I hadn't entirely realized just how much I missed the water until I swam my first length 3 or 4 years ago. Now what gets to me is how slow I am, how sloppy my strokes are, and how quickly I get tired. I'm lucky if I can go 15 to 20 minutes now; when I was younger, practice was MWF 5-7:30PM and Sat 8-11 with meets ever couple of weeks. One of the guys I swam with then still swims on a master's team in Phoenix with a coach who had some Olympic experience. Mark was the best, so its not that surprising, really. On the plus side, the cuff and the baggy trunks I wear today give me a good workout when you consider the drag they create, so maybe I'm doing better than I give myself credit for? Yeah, and I saw a pig flying the other day, right next to Santa and the tooth faerie. Truth is, I only managed to get down to the pool maybe 4 times this year, but that was better than last year--I think I made it down there once in '07, that's all. Ups and downs, strike and gutters and all that ...
