I drove half an hour to the gym got inside and asked to be pointed to the pool. The chubby and unkept receptionist smiled and said the pool is in the back and you go through the locker room to get there, and went back to her magazine. What I found was the smallest lap pool I have ever seen, a whole three lanes and a sign that said "pool temporarily closed" No way in hell was I ready to start my training without swimming, that is the part I am most concerned about. You know the whole if I fail I drown thing.
So, I walk back to the front desk and ask how long "temporarily" is exactly. She advised "I don't know why that sign is there really. Go ahead and swim if you want because I dont see any reason for it to be closed today." YEAH! So I go back excited again to get started. I shower and jump in ready for the freezing water I am used to in the gym lap pools I have been in before (all two of them) and excited to be able to have the pool to myself and not have to share lanes on a first day. What I find is one of the warmest pools I have ever been in. Lovely for lounging... terrible for swimming. Disappointed I look and look for some type of sign or marking to tell me the length of the pool. Nothing. There also is nothing running along the lanes to separate them, just the tile on the bottom. I have no idea how to gauge the length of the pool, all I know is that it looks small and I need to do a 50m freestyle and 50m cool down for my very first day.
I take a guess that the pool is 5 meters long because I really have no clue and don't want to miss out on any training. So I do 10 laps or 20 laps, however you want to look at it since I'm not sure if a lap is out and back or not, get out of the pool and my throat is burning. I go to get in the shower and realize that my skin is bright red and my silver pandora bracelet which I completely forgot to take off has turned black. (more to come on if that is fixable or not) I get dressed and finish my 20 minute walk on a treadmill and go to head out. As I leave the girl at the front desk asked how the pool was, I said it was really warm but seemed ok. I was just ready to get out and head home still heartbroken about my bracelet possibly being ruined.
She then said that she found out the reason the pool had the closed sign on it was due to high chlorine count... hmmm that explains, well, everything! I then asked how long the pool is and she tells me that she is not sure but thinks it is a standard Olympic length HAHAHA that is not even close to being true. So that concludes my first day and I'm not going to lie that it was a disappointment. Tomorrow is a spin class at my usual gym, I am looking forward to that to cheer me up.
Song of the Day - Spoon's Metal Detektor
Weight - 137.6
Swim - 50 m Freestyle + 50m Cool Down
Walk 20 minutes 8 incline at 2.1mph
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