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| - Specifically speaking, I'm not really an outdoorsy person. My job requires that I pretty much sit in one spot for hours on end each day. With that in mind, I do make an effort to keep myself active despite this truth.
Everyday, my schedule includes a 3-4 hour gym session. I enjoy running, swimming, and weight lifting. Until about five months ago, swimming was more associated with recreation in my head, and thus I never really invested to much time into it as a viable source of good exercise. Then, in a moment of clarity, I realized that it could provide many benefits to my health, as well as my fitness level in general.
So, I decided to get a swim coach to help me improve my stroke, and make me ultra efficient in the water. During each of our sessions we would use numerous different pieces of equipment, from fins, to bouys, to googles, etc... Every time I went, I realized that I should probably have my own equipment, instead of borrowing her's, if I wanted to seriously get into swimming, and make the most of the time that I was not training with her. With that, I decided to go on a trek to find some swim equipment. Immediately, one question popped into my head, "where to you get swim equipment in the desert?"
With a little logic, I was able to piece together the fact that swimming is in fact a sport. Being a sport, perhaps local sporting goods stores would carry the equipment I need. I started close to my house with 'Big 5 Sporting Goods', of which I was far less than impressed with. The next closest real sporting goods store to my house is REI (though it is not actually "close" by any stretch of the imagination).
Upon entering, it seemed promising. They do have a very wide selection of equipment for hiking, biking, kayaking, and pretty much most other outdoors sports and activities. I thought that since you swim in more than just a pool (like Lake Mead), that there may be swim equipment here. I searched high and low, but unfortunately they have exactly zero swim related items in inventory.
The moral of the story is: if you are looking for equipment for an activity that is exclusively outdoors, you will probably find something for it at REI. However if this activity, like swimming, can be enjoyed inside as well as out, you are pretty much out of luck. As a final note, the staff was nice and very helpful, after I swallowed my pride and asked for some help.
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