I’ve Joined a Club!

I’m not one of life’s “joiners”. There’s something about organised clubs that just turns me off. Maybe it’s the fact that I can never remember anyone’s name, or the vague feeling that I’m going to be found out as just “winging it”, but for some reason me and clubs don’t seem to go together.

But I’ve got to improve my swimming, and I need to mix with real life triathletes to get some more enthusiasm around me. Please, don’t feel offended - virtual triathlete / cyclist / swimmer / runner friends are great . . . but how do I know you’re real? It could all be an elaborate hoax.

So this evening I went along to Hebburn swimming pool again, and handed over my £20 for membership of the NE31 Tri club. I hope they don’t spot too soon that I’m a fraud!

Off to bed now . . . I have a fixed-wheel brick planned for tomorrow morning. :-D

Workout:

  • Type: Swim
  • Date: 06/07/2007
  • Time: 21:00:00
  • Total Time: 00:55:00.00
  • Distance: 804.67 m
  • Average Pace: 6:54.25/100m

Filed under: Swim, Triathlon

3 Responses to “ I’ve Joined a Club! ”

  1. vonsmallHaussen on June 8, 2007 at 2:12 am

    Yay - Congratulations on joining a club. The thing i’ve learnt about finding out - is that they never do spot that you’re a fraud unless you tell them and even then they don’t always believe you. And for this particular club - you aren’t a fake anyway.

    vonsmallHaussen (pretending to be some hot shot in the city and still waiting to be found out after 15 years)

  2. Richard Hyett on June 8, 2007 at 5:54 am

    Last summer after my first mini triathlon in Peace River whilst on holiday I decided to join a club, the same one in fact, NE31. I had it all worked out, the bike ride, longest moving wooden staircase in the country (pedestrian tyne tunnel), the swim, the ride back home. In no time at all the fitness levels would go up. Never made it, not once.

  3. Fitness Over Forty on June 8, 2007 at 10:31 am

    I currently belong to two gyms. One that I consider my home gym, and one that is next to my office. I use the one at my office for spin classes occassionally, but mostly I like it because I have a place to shower if I cycle to work.

    I also have some aversion to the “new” gyms. My very first gym (where I started lifting weights) was located in underground Seattle - and it looked very similar to a dungeon. I loved it. Weight lifting especially should be done in dark, cold, cement walled places - it adds to the atmosphere…

    Phil