Please Learn The Rules Of The Pool

So the morning sessions at Ashington pool . . .

Normally I’d do Monday lunchtime, so as to give myself an extra hour or so of zzzzz to get over Sunday’s ride & run. But someone in the office had booked the entire two hours I’d already scheduled in my diary to swim . . . for a meeting. Bah.

So I dragged myself out of bed, and off to the pool. To begin with the session looked like being a good’un - aside from the club members steaming up and down in their private lane, hardly anyone in . . .

But it seemed that every five minutes another person would get into the pool. And the trouble is that it’s not a big pool, so pretty soon it was kinda crowded. That in itself isn’t generally a problem, providing that people join lanes in which there are swimmers of similar speeds to themselves.

This DIDN’T happen, and after the fourth time that I realised I was swimming head-to-head with yet another old lady (doing the old lady swim - a bit like breast stroke, but you keep your blue-rinsed hair and glasses completely dry), I called it a day.

Hopefully Wednesday will be better . . . and I can’t wait for the sea to warm up - within the next few weeks I hope to be experiencing the bracing effects of salt water.

Workout:

  • Type: Swim
  • Date: 04/12/2010
  • Time: 17:57:41
  • Total Time: 00:42:00.00
  • Calories: 307
  • Distance: 1,700 m
  • Average Pace: 2:28.14/100m

Filed under: Ashington, Swim

2 Responses to “ Please Learn The Rules Of The Pool ”

  1. bobajobrob on April 12, 2010 at 10:21 pm

    RIght - that sounds like a gauntlet hitting the cold, damp sand of a north-east coast beach.
    The sea was beautifully flat this weekend (during which I’d hoped to go for a surf…) and I was sorely tempted to go for a swim. I know we discussed it last year, but if you need a swim buddy for the open water, crud-infested North Sea then count me in. Let me know - I’m getting fitter…
    Rob

  2. Karl On Sea on April 13, 2010 at 9:28 pm

    Sounds great - I’m thinking swims from the sandcastles at the Spanish City, down to Cullercoats harbour (about 1.6 miles), or down to the middle of Long Sands (2-ish miles). My friend Yves has volunteered to shadow the swims in his kayak.

    What sort of pace do you swim? I’m a slow but steady 2:30 per 100m (actually a bit quicker than that, but I can hold that pace forever), and I was thinking of starting weekly swims from the first week of May . . .