I don’t usually do bank holiday swimming sessions, but given the more formal arrangements for lanes etc. at the moment I thought I’d give it a go today. There were only two of us using the fast lane at the start of the session, so we took a lane line each and everything was going (ahem) swimmingly. Then four boys in their late teens arrived with someone who was presumably the dad of at least one. They all decided to use the fast lane too. Admittedly the boys were relatively quick, though rarely over more than a single length. Unfortunately much of the time they just hung around at the ends getting in the way, had poor lane discipline, stopped swimming halfway down the lane, swam two abreast and generally caused chaos. The dad probably shouldn’t have been in the fast lane at all. Doubly so when he decided to swim breaststroke 🙁
I slogged it out to the end, but I’m not really sure I actually gained much benefit from it. I certainly can’t count it as a successful completion of the set because I had so many delays that I really couldn’t do it properly. Such is life. I shall return tomorrow and have a proper go.