A Summer Respite
I assume you're all familiar with the necessary walk-ferry-walk-swim-walk-subway-walk journey when I swim, since I've written about it without pause for six months now.Well, it may be gone for the next two months.
Astoria Park, which is within easy walking distance of our house, has an absolutely massive pool:
(thanks, Wikipedia)
It opened for the first time last weekend. Today, I went to see if I could swim laps.
It's not shown in the photo, but the area to the left of where the photo ends has four lanes for lap swim, only each lane is the width of 3-4 regular lanes. What this means is you can have 8+ people circle swimming in a lane and it's still easy. I passed one person the whole time and no one passed me. You never see the people on the other side of the lane.
Having a spacious feeling when you're swimming laps is a rare and prized experience.
This pool is also long. Really, really long, because it's 50+ meters (53, I believe). It makes for an endless lap.
Everyone was incredibly nice, which is what Astoria is like in general. What a place.
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