Friday, I worked from home and intended to swim at the park district before work. I had a 9 AM conference call and wanted to do a 2,900 yard swim. Lap swim at Gill Park started at 7:00 am so I would have been fine... However, the pool was closed for servicing; at which time I had already parked and paid the meter! I got back in my car and drove to Welles Park to try to get in at least a half hour swimming there.
For anyone who doesn't know anything about circle swimming, you swim down the lane on one side and up on the other. This is a very common way to swim and allows for different people and different paces to swim in the same lane.
Welles Park has six lanes, however they only had in two lane lines. This means, essentially, they had three massive lanes. The average age of swimmers there was -on the young side- 75 years old. These swimmers swam the double lanes circular swimming which means you would swim down on the right and then have to scoot over the width of two lanes to swim back up on the left. It was insane!
When I suggested we split the land meaning the faster swimmers( i.e. me) take one lane to swim up and back and the slower swimmers swim circular they were having none of it.
I cannot tell you how many people I lapped in 20-ish minutes & my 1,125 yard swim. I am sure I swam more than that due to having to scoot three lanes wide to start the return lap.
Dude to the mishap at Gill Park, I just narrowly got onto my 9 AM conference call. Thankfully, I was pulling into home and could take out my notes and iPad to lead the call.
My second workout on Friday was a 70 minute run over lunch. I literally ran 6 miles of laps around my block because it was protected from the wind. The excitement after that run included me finding five teenagers (presumably from Senn high school?) hiding under our stairwell- doing Lord knows what- smoking pot maybe? I had to call 911 and the police showed up to try to hunt them down afterwards.
It was not a relaxing Friday working from home as I expected it to be. The good news was that Friday was a rest day- and that workout was actually for Saturday- so I was able to go out Friday night with friends, sleep in, and have a whole afternoon with MB!
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