The clocks sprung forward by an hour on Sunday night and it was hard to get up this morning, the dull grey weather meant I had to turn the lights on and when I got to the pool the water looked lifeless and uninviting.
Fernando, Chris and Tricky were being filmed by a Brazillian TV crew ahead of their Rio trip, it seemed to involve a lot of standing around in the water getting cold. They had been at the Lido since 7am.
I slipped into the water out of camera shot and got to swimming, it was surprisingly nice. The 10ºC given seems real and it was easy to do eighteen lengths which I followed by a twenty minute sauna making me a bit late to leave for work. Elizabeth was only just arriving as I left, had she not changed her watch? Fazlar was back from India, didn't see him swim but he looked very cold afterwards.
I forgot to put the battery in my camera so no new pictures today.
Alex - it's lovely at ten isn't it? You feel the cold, but don't seem to get cold. Carl and I did another 2k, and have Thursday pencilled in for our March 3k swim. Good to see you in the flesh (so to speak) the other day.
ReplyDeleteHey Alex .. no I didn't forget to switch the clocks forward .. besides they went forward the night from saturday to sunday ... and not yesterday to today .. I was later then I wanted to be because I had to wait for the builder ...and I could only rush my swim .. no sauna as I had to be back just after 10am- no time for blog nor boo .. sad, that's a first - I was hoping you took some shots today as I missed all the tv action ... I haven't forgotten a battery yet .. but SD card - frustrating - u could have taken shots with your iphone though :) good luck for the 3K in march Carl!
ReplyDeleteAnd you'd never guess that the pool is one degree warmer than this time last year!
ReplyDeleteHa ha - Elizabeth, I didn't really think you overslept. Hope the building work gets sorted out.
ReplyDeleteCarl, Good luck for the 3K - I should try a 2K, I'm sure I could do it if I had the time. What time will you be down on Thursday?
I started swimming last year in March. I think it just hit 10ºC then went down again for a while, I remember it feeling really cold.