An odd day today. I arrived at the pool with my daughter who had decided that she would like to come for a swim too only to find that the public session had been changed to “adults only” due to a lack of life guards. So we trogged off down the motorway one stop to another local pool, missing the traffic queues on the M5 due to an accident that required the road to be resurfaced by literally a few hundred yards (the tailbacks apparently reached twenty miles later on).
I’ve not been to this particular pool before. It only opened fairly recently. As one would probably expect of a modern pool the changing facilities etc. were fairly smart, but the pool itself was a disaster! At the shallow end it is 0.9m deep — almost shallow enough for me to sit in and still be able to breathe. At the deep end I don’t think it was much more than 1.1m. The only real positive was that they had decent lane ropes in and lane labelled for “fast”, “medium” and “slow” pace swimmers. My plan for the session had been to do some work on putting my bilateral breathing and turns together, but there was no way I was going to attempt that in such shallow water. In the end I decided to stick to working on my bilateral breathing, doing 100s breathing only to my weaker side whilst my daughter worked on her 200m fly. After 2,000m I decided to call it a day.
Total distance for the month: 8,300m
Total distance for this year: 319,400m
Distance compared to annual target: 14,800m ahead