Wading through crowds.

Well...I got up for another early morning swim today! Alarm went off at 6.35am, franki joined us in bed and I crept out. "Mum where are you going?' he said in a very awake voice. "Just popping out to the shops, wont be long". I grabbed my already rolled towel from the night before and exited quickly before I changed my mind. It felt good driving down to the pool, blue sky, very little traffic and wondering what to expect.
Paul had said to me the night before,"you won't like it, it's full of old people at 7 in the morning" How right he was. There was probably about 10 "old" people waiting to go into the changing rooms. It was obviously the regulars as they were all chatting amongst themselves.
Once changed and in the poolside I headed for the fast lane. The slow lane had what looked like your post heart attack people, bless 'em, walking up and down the lanes. I'm not knocking them, I think it's fantastic they are there making the effort and thank goodness they realise they are supposed to be in the slow lane. Ha ha. So the fast lane....there was probably about 6 of us. I would say 3 of them were not fast and were kidding themselves that they should be in that lane. I might sound patronising but having swum for most of my childhood/teenage years in competitions it's a bit frustrating when I am constantly grabbing at people's feet or trying to overtake them, but struggle as they don't move over and allow enough room. It's like wading through the crowds and trying to avoid the odd kick here and there! Rant over.
Anyway I allowed myself half an hour as I was aware that I had to get home, throw my uniform on and cart the kids off to their childminder. So in that half an hour I did 40 lengths again. I varied it this time to make it more interesting and did 300m warm up, 200m, 100m, 100m legs, 100m arms, 200m to finish. Yes I was knackered afterwards and my arms ached like hell. Not used to it!
Anyway it's 8pm and I feel proud of myself that I got out of bed and did what I planned to do! I did enjoy it even though it is frustrating at times and I was spoilt when I went swimming in Basingstoke on Sunday morning with only 1 other person in the lane. Oh by the way, it's been 3 nights now that we have not had our usual de stresser glass of wine in the eve. In fact I have actually slept better without it. It is actually calling me now that I have remembered, so I will resist. Long may it continue. We'll see. xx