Good news! The pool was open again today. Although they weren’t sure it would be at first. Not so good news: apparently one of the heating boilers has died and the other failed yesterday, though fortunately only because of consumable parts wearing out. It did mean that the pool was a little on the cool side, but not unpleasantly so once I got going (it was about 28.4°C, so I was told). Tomorrow it should be back up to normal operating temperature, though I shan’t be swimming again until the following day.
My 50m front crawl reps were an improvement on last time, with my first failure coming on rep 11. I did then have a couple more failures with the last coming on rep 15 and whilst I should therefore have skipped rep 16, I decided to do it anyhow as it was the last of that set.
The 25m reps were quite tough. My arms felt very tired. That may have been down to the 50m set, or it could have been a result of chainsawing up bits of tree earlier in the day. Or in fact helping with removing my father-in-law’s B&O television which was exceptionally heavy despite being a flat screen. The stand alone must weigh something like 25kg. Anyhow, I kept working at keeping my head slightly lower in the water though it does feel a bit awkward at the moment. I didn’t get to finish the set though, running out of time after fourteen reps.