Minus 2 yet swimmers and aquagym activists arrive at 9:30 to the cleanest pool in Paris. Lanes are strung, the swimmers warm up, 400 crawl, 100 backstroke, 4×75 crawl sprints with 25 backstroke, 200 kickboard or just kicking, 6×25 crawl sprints that make the pool jump. 45 minutes of bliss.
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Got to be scared. Out there in the cold some people screaming like wolves in fairy tales. Their howls echoing in Hausmannian splendor.
Wazzaaapool full swing with maximum amount of youngsters, the youngest backstroking future champion only 12.
Breast stroke, I explain, is the style you swim with a powdered wig, but not here in wazzaaapool.
Crawling 4 miles in tepid water after the electric failure of EDF switch board two hours earlier, the air lacking from the break-down of the ventilation and air extraction, heavy with chlorine and other toxic gazes.
Still, we work out for two hours like the universe is here, in the piscine Saint Germain. Introduced hand paddles. Excellent.
Otherwise what?
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How did you find us? Michelle asks in her Savoie English accent, wrapping up some bottles of wine and fishing for the bag. The couple look like intellectuals from the east.
Google, he says, in his own eastern accent.
Ah, Google? Where is that from?
Bulgaria, the bearded professor says, we are from Bulgaria.
Ah, Google is in Bulgaria, Michelle cries, handing over the goods.
No, we are from Bucharest.
Ah, very nice, have a nice stay and a good trip back to Google in Bucharest, she says as they leave.
Somehow this all gets lost in the throng of people buying champagne… for New Years.
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