26-04-08 Day 1:  6 mile Pool Swim

I got my timings all wrong this morning as I had to wait 30mins for the pool to open at 6.30am.  At least it gave me the chance to watch the latest episode of Lost Series 4 on my Ipod.  12 x 800m reps were on the menu, and I stuck rigidly to the '1 x Rep and recover' routine every 15mins. 

So exactly 3hrs later, I had competed one quarter of the Deca distance swim.  Now that the race format is non-wetsuit, I took this opportunity to try out my new Blue Seventy PointZero3 swim skint.  The technology used is absolutely genius as you can feel the water just slip straight over your body.

Now today was the first time I have every really swam long in an indoor swimming pool.  I am very disappointed to say that I left the gym with a very important question unanswered.

If a swimmer was caught short, and found himself running to the toilets with the intention of making himself lighter at the soonest opportunity, how would one go about dealing with the water issues?

The removal of swim wear followed by the drying of a towel is both impractical and time consuming, something which the swimmer may not have!!

When the swimmer finally sits down, a large pool of water congregates both on the floor, and on the toilet seat.  Once the swimmer has become half the man he used to be, the wiping of the seat would be the polite thing to do, but would he also be required to find the pool attendant and request a mop and bucket?

I didn't have this problem in the Channel.  Things were a lot easier as I was 'at one' with mother nature and used this issue both to warm up and grease up the inside of the wetsuit!!