Sea temp is 20C and air at 7am this morning was about 14C- that’s wet suit territory in my book. 90%+ of people will have one on Friday I reckon, at least they did last year.
But yeah, it was a bit warm in the heated pool just now 
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The sea temp has dropped to 19.9C & wetsuits now compulsory for the tri on Friday. Guess they don’t like it cold here. Glad I brought the thing over now. There’s a massive split in the side unfortunately which Christmas bingo wing bulges grotesquely through, will get some super glue on it
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Like a summer’s day at Skegness 
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Tri Club pool boom is broken again, last time it meant a year out of the pool, yesterday we decided to run the session. Its 16m to the boom, challenging is an understatement. Did lots of UW fly kick lengths, not necessary really in most triathlon circles, but the super series and academy trials are all pool based and for super series the older kids do 800 SCM so 31 turns and the best in class ALL have good turns. Did some 2 lengths trying to get stroke count right down, some 2 length sprints, some drills and skills. Not sure this is going to work long term
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Googled it, you mean the temporary wall set up half way to divide the pool ?
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yes most 50m pools have them in some inclination, LAC has one at the end closest to the glass wall and it slides along manually, Sheffield has 2, 1 at each end, but West Norwood is only 25m and has a wall that comes up from the floor “electronically” to split an area for lessons, its now stuck open. The last time it got stuck they shut the pool for a year!
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I think one at Leeds has the same thing
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It does, it sometimes breaks
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Ah stuck open….i was wondering how a broken boom would halt play
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speaking to a coach on weds eve who has a broken boom…never really understood why they had them on 25m pools
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So they could sub-divide the pool even further for children’s lessons or even private hire bookings to maximise income.
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yer this, one end has a raiseable floor so they can do lessons on widths with varying depths, but still seems pointless as its not like the remaining 16m means it keeps public or club sessions viable so why bother.
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yep, but…
the cost of a boom and movable floor would never pay back through parties or swimmers…
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Talking of booms, Kent Champs 800m tonight at Crawley K2. Lets ignore the fact its an hour + drive from most of Kent, that has a boom which broke today, leaving the county champs as SCM. Could be worse and luckily not in the national window but this country needs to start spending some money on facilities.
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it was ever thus…
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