Swimming!

A trip to Horwich Leisure Centre was in order this morning as I'm really struggling to stay sedentary through my ankle/foot injury.

I haven't been swimming for about two years so decided to just do 50 lengths of breaststroke (proper head under water breaststroke though, none of this trying to keep your hair dry malarkey).

The three lanes all had a few people in each of them so I just got into the main pool area to start with as there were only about six people in it.  The first few lengths were the hardest and I was wondering whether 50 was a bit optimistic but I soon got into my stride and it got much easier.  After about eight lengths I noticed there was nobody in the middle lane so I went into there as I had spent my first lengths going in zigzags to get round other people, even though there were only a few in the pool.

I got to 50 lengths but didn't feel anywhere near tired enough and had only been in the pool for 35 minutes so I decided to do a few more.

When I got to 60 I decided I'd better start thinking about leaving, seeing as I had to go home and work so I made the decision to just do four more and make it a mile.

It took me about 45 minutes to do the mile which isn't ace but I'm quite pleased seeing as I haven't been swimming for so long and it was all in breaststroke.

My foot is much better today and the swelling has gone down almost completely.  It's still a little painful on movement so I'm not going to try to run until it's pain free as I don't want any more setbacks.  It didn't hurt at all whilst swimming so I'm going to try to find time to fit more sessions in but it's difficult as this is the only day this week that I can go in the morning and it's too busy for me in the evenings but I might just have to put up with it. I hate how groups of women go and stand chatting in the shallow end so you can't reach the end and do a full length.  Why go to the baths if all you're going to do is stand around and talk?  They're there for about an hour and probably only do ten lengths in that time.

Sorry for the rant.

Total distance - 1 mile  (64 lengths or 1600metres)

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