Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

As noted earlier the district of Sao Paulo I was staying in, while good in other respects, didn't look the most promising of places for running (no way of avoiding crossing a busy road every couple of hundred metres, unless you kept doing laps of the same block), and I'd planned a rest day for today. However, the discovery that the hotel I was staying in had a rooftop pool meant that an alternative was available, though the swim (the first I've done for a month) was a bit of a token effort - struggling a bit from the choppiness of running into my own backwash, although at least I didn't end up with the dizziness I sometime have after doing a lot of laps of small pools.

Heading out to the bus station made me appreciate just how much traffic the Metro carries in peak hour in the peak direction (which I was glad not to be heading in) - packed trains every minute or so, and a continual sea of people on the side of the stations heading to the exits. (I imagine Luz, the main interchange station, must be well up there on the lists of the world's busiest stations, although I believe Mumbai leads that particular honour).

Spent much of the rest of the day on the bus to Curitiba (stage two of the three-stage trip to Porto Alegre) - a reasonably pleasant trip with some excellent scenery on the first half (which we got more time to look at because of slow-moving traffic). Once again the trip gets the thumbs up - no doubt something will go pear-shaped at some stage but it hasn't happened yet.