A different experience.

I didn't realise how long it had been since my last swim! Things have been busy this week.

Today I went to the City Pool after my lecture, and there honestly was nothing of interest that happened to me, which was quite disappointing.

The only way in which City Pool is better than Byker is the provision of lanes - you get a choice between front crawl and breaststroke. The rest of the pool was full so I opted for the front crawl lane. Since starting this challenge 3 weeks ago I have always swum front crawl one way and breaststroke back, mainly because I can't swim a lot of front crawl (or so I thought). The people in the lane were going at a steady pace and I knew I wouldn't be causing problems swimming the odd breaststroke length, as I swim quite fast. However, the lifeguard wasn't having any of it so, even though I was keeping up with everyone else in the lane and other people were far more obstructive than I was, it was made clear that I had to swim front crawl or move into the jam packed bit and commence the usual pattern of dodging people.

The upshot of all this is that I swum 100 lengths front crawl pretty much non stop. Given that 3 weeks ago I was doing 2 front crawl and 2 breaststroke then stopping for a rest, I think this is an achievement!

My arms are quite sore now, but this may be partly due to having a vaccination in each one yesterday - they've been a bit sore ever since!