Swimming lesson #9

While in Cork I made unbelievable progress. I breaststroked an entire length of the pool, vastly improved my front crawl and backstroked half a length. Tonight, however, normal service was resumed. I have a theory: the pool in Cork was a normal gym pool with normal pool water, etc. But the pool in Naas is a teaching pool with teaching pool water and I'm convinced that they add some secret ingredient to make the pool less buoyant and therefore harder to swim in, the logic being that you'll be a much stronger swimmer in normal water. Make sense?

Tonight's takeaways:

• 1/2 a lung full of water