Wednesday, August 7, 2013
I had a
great sleep-in this morning before checking the heat list for today’s
swim. We have free practice in the
mornings until 2pm. The race itself only
starts at 2pm…
I
meandered over to the tram stop buying food for lunch at the local supermarket
en route. The pool is beautiful. It is a modern, well-lit, tonnes of windows,
50m pool. It was great. It took me a while for my arms to remember
how to swim as it has been a few weeks, but I did a good 2.5km “practice” this
morning.
My heat
was scheduled to swim at 3pm, so I decided I would head home to read and eat
instead of staying at the pool. My book
is sooooo good, so that was a quite nice break.
I swam
in heat 7…knowing fully well that all of the girls I was actually competing against
in my age group were swimming in heats 5 through 1…therefore meaning I would
not be placing at all! I had a pretty
close heat, which is nice for the self-confidence and had a great 200m swim
(3:01, which is really good for me!)…but I did definitely come in 6 out of 6 in
my age group! Go figure. It still felt really good to swim, though. I haven’t been in just a “swimming race”
since 2nd year university! It’s
been a while, but I didn’t even lose my googles when I dove in from the
starting block! Yeah!
I got
off a stop early on the tram so I could get some gelato! It was the best price and the best selection
of flavours I have had yet in Italy! It
was great!! I walked home and stopped at
the grocery store again – to get pasta, tomatoes, and red wine for dinner! I even bought a can of rosemary and olive oil
pringles! They are to die for!
It is
actually a decent temperature today. I
was able to eat dinner and finish my awesome book out on the patio I can access
from my room. It is great!
There
is no swimming for me tomorrow. I have a
day off before 2 races on Friday and 2 on Saturday. I may rent a bike if I can figure out how, or
perhaps walk around down town. Turin is such a big city it is not as obvious of
what “needs” to be seen and visited!
Later,
-Allison
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