My goggles broke while I was swimming today. I was in the middle of seeing if I could swim a full mile without stopping. I wasn’t really keeping track of how far I had gone, but I was keeping track of how far ahead of the guy next to me I was. I was a full 100 yards ahead of him (I’m guessing I had gone about 600 yards to his 500 yards). I decided to kick a couple hundred before going back to regular swimming. I kicked a 200 and went to put my goggles back over my eyes when the elastic snapped. I guess I could have kicked some more, but I lost my morale after that.
To make matters worse, when I went to get a drink, a maintenance worker stepped out of the boiler room and told everyone to get out of the hot tub. I asked him a few questions about what was wrong. Apparently the chemical detection and supply pieces of the mechanism broke a while back and the pool company sent him the wrong parts, so now the chemical mixture in the hot tub was dangerous. He drained it as fast as possible. I surmised that it must mean a lack of chemicals and an overabundance of bacteria. If the chlorine levels were too high, they could just dilute it, but with the chlorine too low, the bugs come in. Maybe I’m wrong, but I was certainly glad I hadn’t stepped into the hot tub.
Swim:
200 Free warm-up
600 Free continuous
200 Kick
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1000 yards
