Swimming

On Monday i decided to finally go to the local swimming pool and go for a swim. I walked to the Leith Victorian Swimming Pool. I'm told it's from the Victorian times which is why it's 25 yards long...or 23 metres in length. Dammit! You know you are in Scotland when this is what you get for pools. As i walked in i was bowled over by the humid heat of the air. It was full on and heated way too hot for my liking. I guess they pump up the heat when you swim in Scotland! The pool is only 5 lanes wide and has changing rooms all around the outside of it. Very old school. But i gotta work with what i got. There were a few white bodied people swimming but it wasn't too busy. I was really curious to see how unfit i am. Well it turns out, after a couple of laps, i am vey unfit! No real surprises there. I remember when i had two months in the USA last year and got back into waterpolo i played so shockingly. So it was a bit discouraging realising how unfit i was but probably a good wake up call to get my back into shape. I dont know how i'll go swimming in the depths of winter, even if it is indoors! All in all, it really was the Scottish experience of a swimming pool that i expected. Although looking at my skin now, i'm pretty pale myself!