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@dooks
i like ironmonger row baths just off old street/city road.
tried a bunch of other pools but i still ride right across london (well from NW6) to go to this one.
double width lanes, 33 metres, cool and clean water more than make up for cold showers and draughty changing rooms. they're closing it for a big refurb soon and i'm going to have to find somewhere else. sob
i'd been recommended swiss cottage leisure centre but i can't stand that place. yeah it's all new and brightly coloured and sells coffee and cake etc , but it gets ridiculously overcrowded, it's only 25 metres, has only one single witdh "fast" lane, the water is blood temperature and so filthy you can hardly see the bottom. i just cannot get any rhythm going in there as it's too narrow to pass and you invariably get caught in traffic pretty much every lap. it's so narrow that i've banged hands with people passing in the other direction just in normal non-overtaking. absolutely detest that place.
anyone know of any decent 30+ metre pools in town?