After I got into real triathlon training, I always go to Sweden imagining that I will enjoy the Badhus so much more than I ever did.
Because now I can swim, sort of.
I do enjoy the swimming in Sweden more, I do, but there are still obstacles. Obstacles that I don’t have here and to be honest, obstacles that I don’t always realize that I don’t have here – therefore it is nice to go to Europe once in a while and try to train.
This time around though, I had a fantastic experience at GIH-Badet. GIH is the Swedish School of Sports and Health Siences. They have a swimming pool open to the public in the morning, from 06.30 to 08.00.
So I got up around 06.15, arrived at 06.40 jumped in the pool at 06.45. The whole arena was dark, they only had the lights on in the water. Lovely. In addition to that they played classical music through loud speakers next to the pool.
There I was, crawling almost like all the others, to classical music, before sunrise after having walked on ice and through snow just to get to the pool.
The things people do…