Because I've no cartilage left in my left hip so I can't run.
Because when you're over 30 you can't eat what you want unless you earn it.
Because it clears my head, pproblems always look a lot smaller after a good session in the pool.
Because I'm useless at football. There's a joy in doing something really well – this is what I was born to be good at. I swim to feel good about myself, to feel empowered and confident.
Because of the adrenaline,I buzz and fizz after swimming, no matter how I felt before I always feel happy after.
Becausee I need to selfish sometimes, not be an employee, husband or friend sometimes. To have something for me.
Because I can need a place to think on my own. Nothing clears like my head like being in the pool.
To lose myself in a task that has no real point but means everything.
Because there's no greater challenge than beating yourself.
Because of the pain, the molten lead in the shoulder, the pounding lungs. To feel what it's like to feel. So much of life is about being cocooned, I need to really feel something.
To remember what it feels like to be a child. I spent most of the first fifteen years of my life swimming.
Because I can.
NORTHERN PLANNER 
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