The swimming season finished rather abruptly

Formally the swimming season was to have ended last Saturday, 28 September, but the powers that be decided that there would be three extra sessions: on the morning of the New Year (Wednesday), Friday (i.e. yesterday) and Saturday (i.e. today). 

On Wednesday morning I walked dutifully to the pool and swam the mandatory 20 lengths in fairly cold water. We spent the evening of the New Year with my daughter in law's brother and family, and the second night of New Year with my family. Towards the end of that Thursday evening, I felt a familiar tickle in my throat signifying that I probably had 'a viral infection of the upper respiratory system'. I slept over ten hours that night which is very unusual for me; it was clear that I had no strength to go swimming on Friday morning. I barely had the strength to take the dog for her morning walk that I shortened considerably. Ditto yesterday evening and this morning.

So the swimming season finished more abruptly than I would have liked. With a little SQL mojo, here are the data for the past few years, since I started documenting each swim. In 2019, I was swimming only once a week, but since 2020 (the Covid year), I've been swimming twice a week.

Year	Number of swims	Total lengths
2019	16	438
2020	24	562
2021	30	548
2022	29	567
2023	31	561
2024	34	710

My nose is running and my eyes are hurting, so I assume that's the end of this blog entry.

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