The Length of a Length!
Discipline: Swim
Distance: Hmmm - good question!
Had a student not turn up for an exam that I was supposed to be invigilating, so I managed to head down to the leisure centre near work for a swim. It's much more expensive than the local pool, but there weren't more than six people in the entire pool, which was divided into three lanes, and three of those were me and my two wuk colleagues!
The problem I have with this pool is that I don't know the length, so I don't really know distances! I'm confident it's longer than my usual pool, which is 25m, but then I'm not sure by how much! Two lengths took me 70 seconds, as opposed to the usual 50, but how much of that is due to the push off the wall having less effect I'm not sure. I'm going to assume that it is at least 33m, which made my 30 lengths a round kilometre, although in some ways the times for lengths make me wonder if it isn't more like 37.5m - or 75m for two lengths. Who knows? probably the leisure centre staff - but I forgot to ask them!
I practised right side breathing, and general reach stuff, but I'm getting to the stage where I think I need to structure the sessions more, so I'm off to Ztri (local tri club) on Monday evening to see what they can come up with. I'll hopefully see Graham (see last pool session) and meet some new tri peeps to chat to about tri!
Distance: Hmmm - good question!
Had a student not turn up for an exam that I was supposed to be invigilating, so I managed to head down to the leisure centre near work for a swim. It's much more expensive than the local pool, but there weren't more than six people in the entire pool, which was divided into three lanes, and three of those were me and my two wuk colleagues!
The problem I have with this pool is that I don't know the length, so I don't really know distances! I'm confident it's longer than my usual pool, which is 25m, but then I'm not sure by how much! Two lengths took me 70 seconds, as opposed to the usual 50, but how much of that is due to the push off the wall having less effect I'm not sure. I'm going to assume that it is at least 33m, which made my 30 lengths a round kilometre, although in some ways the times for lengths make me wonder if it isn't more like 37.5m - or 75m for two lengths. Who knows? probably the leisure centre staff - but I forgot to ask them!
I practised right side breathing, and general reach stuff, but I'm getting to the stage where I think I need to structure the sessions more, so I'm off to Ztri (local tri club) on Monday evening to see what they can come up with. I'll hopefully see Graham (see last pool session) and meet some new tri peeps to chat to about tri!
posted by XFR Bear @ 9:21 am
4 Comments:
Bear, why don't you ask the Pool people how big it is... tell them you're training and need to know the distances you're swimming. It sounds better than your local Pool actually!
It's good if you get there at the right time, otherwise it's full of bliddy school kids!
Plus the shallow end is only 2 foot 9, which means I can't do my stroke properly :o(
Plus it costs twice as much!
Will deffo ask the pool peeps how big it is (fnarr fnarr), meant to today but forgot in a rush to get back to wuk
Do they do season ticket things or blocks of tickets? Or just flutter your eyelashes at someone and tell them all about your training....
They do Wumbly, but I'd only be able to fit in one swim a week while at wuk, so it doesn't work out cheaper.
I think the fluttering eyelashes bits only wuks for women!
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