Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Staying in central Brisbane at the top of the Roma Street parklands (ahead of working out of the Brisbane office today and heading home tonight), which put me within easy range of the Spring Hill baths. This is one of the more characterful pools in Australia, an only modestly altered 1886 facility (complete with century-old signs advising men not to loiter on one side of the pool), and is a convenient location too, although it must be too cold for the locals because I pretty much had the place to myself. (The water, if anything, was a bit warm).

I wasn't moving that well so my time was a bit faster than I expected. It wasn't until I saw a sign on the way out that I realised what I should have initially, that an 1886 pool wouldn't have been measured in metres and so my swim was a bit shorter than I'd planned (that said, it wasn't a round number in yards either). I had also forgotten about the road crossing outside a hospital whose principal purpose appears to be give it more customers (and I am sceptical that a planned 14-storey building whose construction has so far made it to one storey is going to be open for business in 'early 2024', a definition which I would say even on a generous interpretation ends tomorrow).

Made use of both Attackpoint and Strava for work-related purposes today: Attackpoint to dig up some comments Claire had made after my 2009 visit to the Torres Strait so I could respond to a question someone had asked about climate change/tropical cyclone risk there, Strava to check the elevation of some of the lower-lying bits of my late July 2023 run in Dublin to follow up a query about work being done on coastal flooding risks in Ireland.