I had been "paying as I go" to swim in the Swan Leisure Centre in Ranelagh, but today I bit the bullet and took out a years membership. In fairness it is a great pool and there is also a gym and lots of fitness classes available.
I'm not sure if I mentioned before that my sisters and I have signed up for a 12.5 mile swim around Key West this June. We will be competing as a relay team so we will all end up swimming around 3 miles each.
Before I swam today I was working out how many meters 3 miles converts to, which is 5000 metres.
Therefore when training in a 25m pool we will need to get 200 lengths under our belts (this means we should be fit enough to swim against the sea currents which will be way stronger than in the pool).
I haven't been swimming for the past few weeks since I had minor surgery and was easing myself back slowly. Today I finally I felt like I was swimming well and that I can do the KW Island swim!
Awesome!
I'll blog regularly about my swim training and how I am getting on and do look out for my blogs about the actual race when I complete it in June!!
Obviously you can see from this sign that Linn Snamha is the Irish for Swimming Pool. (I think if you had asked me to translate it I possibly might have said it was Snamhlann)
I put this photo up because my American friends get a kick out of the fact that we call swimsuits "togs" here in Ireland. In fairness I think it is fairly funny that English people tend to call their swimsuits "costumes" - it sounds as if they are putting on a performance or something!
