Swimming at Ethos

By Julien on Thursday, February 2 2006, 21:37 - General - Permalink

This afternoon, I tested the new Imperial College Sport Center - Ethos. I went for a swim and that was actually pretty nice. The 25m & 5-lanes pool is relatively bright and the water very clear. No rubbish music is played and the UV disinfection system doesn't leave you with a too strong chlorine smell (that were the arguments to convice M.). It's globally modern, with a huge mirror in the changing room, individual shower temperature selectors and digital lockers. I've not tested the spa, neither the sauna and the steam room yet.
As I need to do some negative comments too, I'll just point out two things that were missing: kickboards and pull buoys (*) but also girls ;) .
I think that's the best pool I've ever been, and therefore the best free pool too :) . We'll see how all this nice stuff resists to intensive use though.

Ultra new.

(*) Up to now, when Mommas was talking about that, I thought they were "pool boy", which doesn't make much sense, does it ? :)

Comments

1. On Friday, February 3 2006, 17:06 by Julien

I went again for a swim this afternoon (just before the Friday afternoon cakes, it's great) and the main problems were fixed: kickboards and pull buoys available and not only guys were swimming. Has the sport center manager read my blog overnight ? ;)

2. On Friday, February 3 2006, 23:41 by Fred

I'm sure the presence of girls will motivate you to swim more often!

3. On Monday, February 6 2006, 17:46 by Julien

Today, when I went out of the pool after my 2000m, my nose started bleeding slightly. I just asked the lifeguards a tissue, but they insisted I should sit down and they took care of me for a while. After getting changed I had to come back to fill in a form reporting my "injury" :) Could be worse !

4. On Wednesday, February 22 2006, 13:54 by Playm

Only one post in February? something wrong?

5. On Wednesday, February 22 2006, 16:00 by Julien

My hips, however slightly better, still prevent me from running, so no news from there. Maybe a hiking post in a week or two :)