I finally got back in the pool today after several months away. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it might be. I was able to swim fairly quickly still, but I didn’t string together anything more than 200 yards at a time. I’ll get back into the swing of things eventually (if I’m still in San Diego).

It was really crowded at the pool today. Really crowded. Every lane had multiple people in it and there were hundreds of kids swarming the deck waiting for the waterslide to open. While trying to figure out which lane to squeeze into, a couple people got out of the same lane. I jumped in. They were speaking French to each other and to about 8 others in the pool. One of them got back in the lane with me and spoke perfect English with almost no accent. I didn’t expect her to swim very well, based on how she was built, but she turned out to be surprisingly fast. I was faster, of course, but she could swim for 10 minutes without slowing down. I can’t do that right now.

I think they must all be here for a swim meet somewhere, because there were far too many of them to just be traveling around together. And they were all swimmers. I’m guessing they are an age group team from Canada, but I resisted the urge to ask any questions. I just did my thing and then got out of there.

5 x 100 free
5 x 100 kick
3 x 200 pull with paddles
4 x 5 IM order with fins
6 x 50 free
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2100 yards