Fat A$$?

I wasnt really going to get into this topic but I think I discovered the culprit this evening.  I have been having issues with my bathing suit bottoms.  They keep getting picks in them.  But not the snag type of pick.  These are like mass quantity picks that ultimately shall we say make the material sheer?  Not fun.  And all the while I have been thinking to myself...  I know I am swimming a whole lot more these days but so much so that I am wearing through bathing suits?  And if I were going to wear through the bottom there should be no surprise if I wore through the tops as well.  But the tops are fine. 
So now I have 2 unmatched tops.  I know some of you would love if I went down some bottomless swimming path...  But it is really getting on my nerves.  I went to my favorite swimsuit web-site last night in hopes to find some bottoms.  Plug for the web-site:  http://www.swimoutlet.com/  And they did have a few and reasonably priced.  HAH!  But the size was too big.  And that's when it hit me...  even with all this working out maybe my a$$ is fatter than I realised.  Maybe I am buying the wrong size bottoms...  Again all the while I have been obsessed with making sure I buy the right size top.  I have been wrong all along.  What a miserable thought.  So I opted to just stick with what I have for now and look again in a few months.

AHAAAA!!!! moment....  So this evening KP and I went swimming.  I havent been in the pool much.  So this evening was just going to be a series of 100 yards to just keep moving (yesterday's venture did somewhat take its toll on me).  I did 4 sets of 100 and then 1 set of 200.  Not the stellar almost to a mile quest but I was OK with it.  Swimming in the evening in an outdoor pool that is pretty much vacant is splendid.  You can see the ripples your stroke makes in the shadows on the bottom.  The water is clear and not murky like overpopulated pools in the midst of summer can be.  The sun is still warm on your back.  It was all going at a nice pace.  And then it hit me....  When I stop a set to check my time and get a breather...  My lower back leans up against the cement siding of the pool.  I do it in every pool...  I am so conscientious to not sit on the side of the pool or the steps.  To not pick the suit.  And here I am leaning all up against the side as I check my time etc and picking the heck out of it.  Again I know this could turn into some ugly banter...  But I was so glad to come to the realisation.

Now I just have to get out of that damned leaning habit.
I am also trying to improve my turns as well.  I have been reluctant to work on the kick turn.  I used to do it as a child but never learned the proper technique.  And then when you throw a whole bunch of women in the water sharing lanes and changing lanes I decided it was a skill I did not need to master at this time.  However I do beleive I am losing time with my grasping the wall technique.  So I am working on that as well.

FOUR WEEKS to go...  I really need to get the focus on.