My mile a day challenge has reached day 11, and therefore mile 11 and so I’m half way. As the challenge is designed to be an ‘English Channel’ swim, that means I’m half way to France. Not sure how I’ll get a keepsake pebble for this swim though.
Mile 9
A bit of a trek for me this one, out to West Park Leisure Centre near the M1, but I got there in plenty of time for the 8:30pm start of lane swimming. However, we weren’t even allowed into the changing rooms until 8:32pm so that we didn’t get in the way of the swimming club. It seemed that that was regular policy and while it didn’t matter for me this time, it’s something I’d be annoyed about if this was my regular pool.
Once in though, the swim was lovely. The pool is an unusual ‘T’-shape and the main bit of the pool was being used by an aqua aerobics class, so the lane swimmers has three lanes at the top of the T. Due to the shape, we still got a 25m length and it was a lovely swim.
Mile 10
I hit double figures at Cotgrave Leisure Centre yesterday morning. A lovely clean pool that was kept nice and cool – probably one of the coolest indoor pools I’ve swam in – perfect for lane swimming.
Three lanes we re marked out and that left room for ‘general’ swimmers as well. However the medium speed lane was taken up by two slow breaststrokers swimming side-by-side. And as soon as they finished, literally as they were leaving the lane, two more got in and again swam side-by-side. Fortunately the pool wasn’t big enough that it slowed anyone down or stopped anyone else’s swim, however surely that’s what the unlaned area is for.
Anyway, another mile done. And in fact I did an extra length as the changing rooms were at the deep end, so I swam up there to get out.
Mile 11 – halfway
Mile 11 was done this morning before I attempted* to catch the train to London. For that reason it was at the Grove Leisure Centre in Newark, close to the train station.
This leisure centre is attached to my local one and so my membership got me in for a free and it was a nice big pool with at least six lanes marked out for swimming – with two fast lanes. The far fast lane was occupied by two guys doing sprints, so I joined a woman in the other lane and the two of us swam peacefully around each other.
Another lovely mile to set me up for the day before I got to the train station to discover all the trains were delayed or cancelled.
*They were so messed up I ended up driving to London!
Half way happy face
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