A dull day at work.

Went swimming after work. Tried the pool at the Concord Leisure Centre instead of the Hillsborough Leisure centre. This was for two reasons, 1) I missed my ‘usual’ Monday session yesterday because I got stuck working late, and 2) there’s a game on at the other ‘Hillsborough’, and the traffic is crazy-mad.

The Concord is considerably older and more ‘well worn’ than the Hillsborough centre. The changing rooms are a bit tatty, and the pool itself is clearly a relic of the 1970s – with lovely brutalist design touches here and there – such as the tiny ‘slit’ windows set high in the walls. Crucially though, it’s quite quiet. Compared to Hillsborough, anyway.

Unfortunately, some of the swimmers don’t appear to understand the concept of ‘lane swimming’ and are merrily swimming against the (clearly marked) flow of traffic. The lifeguards are too interested in making sure the kids, playing water polo in the other pool, are safe and well. This is an annoyance, but not enough to put me off – especially as the later it gets, the quieter it gets. At 7pm, there’s only 4 or 5 people, including me, in the main pool. This is excellent.

Coming to this pool also appears to have shot some of my previous claims in the foot – this pool is clearly bigger than the swimming pool at the Hillsborough centre. I’d assumed, wrongly, that the Hillsborough pool was a 25m pool. Not so, it seems. The Concord pool is 25m, and it’s definitely longer. This means my claims of swimming a kilometre are somewhat out of whack. As it is today, I swam just half a km, which is depressingly short. I hope to improve, significantly, upon this in the near future.

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