Gay Sex Story: The Shallow End
Saturday, December 29th, 2007Every morning at 5:30 that summer, I was in the local pool. The early-bird swim, they called it, so early that the lifeguard no longer bothered to answer her alarm. Good thing I knew the pool manager, who slipped me a key to open the gate and let myself in.
I’d been alone five mornings a week, stroking through 45 minutes of non-world-class freestyle, getting the heart-rate up and doing what I could to tighten the muscles.
Alone, that is, until two weeks ago. I knew him only as Gord, a guy with the same average fitness goals. He was about 25, a couple years my junior, and we were the same 6 feet, within a pound or two of 185.
I’d be lying if I suggested I hadn’t taken a good look at his form in the water, and out of it. He was nicely muscled, but not overly so. Here was a guy much like me, battling the excesses of life that challenge the wardrobe, and he was succeeding rather nicely. He had the broad back of a man who swam and lifted a few weights, the narrow waist of someone waging war with the calories and winning most of the battles.