Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

First time in the pool for a while - at Ivanhoe at the end of the day because of a flying visit to Torquay for a work meeting (didn't get the chance to run on a beach which looks ideally suited to it, and declined the opportunity to join a few of my colleagues who were making a detailed personal investigation of current Bass Strait sea surface temperature anomalies).

The price of going late afternoon is that it's more crowded than early morning, and Ivanhoe doesn't have a lot of space that's deep enough for this purpose, so I just had to stay out of the way of everyone else, mostly kids who appeared to have noticed some 'Friday afternoons excepted' small print on the 'No Diving or Bombing' signs. (Telling kids off in front of people I presumed to be their parents has the potential to be a lot more trouble than it's worth; to add insult to injury, when the lifeguard finally noticed she thought I was responsible for them). Perhaps I was just a bit down through being in one of my occasional people-I-know-like-me-but-the-broader-community-doesn't moods (the cure for which is to reduce exposure to the media, especially letters and online comments threads associated with News Corporation publications).