Clissold Leisure Centre

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Welcome to Hackney on a Monday. Well, it's that part of Hackney called Stoke Newington, not a stones throw away from sunny Dalston. Geography lesson over.

Notice says no shoes in the changing rooms. now that's a great idea, take note. The changing room floors are cold, wet and slippery. Now where's the pool? Can't fail to notice the young urban professionals, the trendy sort, the ones that live in Stokey and ride colourful bikes with funny brakes. Beautiful youth.

Big wide pool with lots of lanes, two for fast swimmers. Cool, but how fast? Then I notice the flippers and hand paddle things, loads of people have got them, cheats. This pool says serious, there's a massive electronic scoreboard, seats for cheering from, no shallow or deep end, the pool is 2.0m all the way down.

I made hard work of my mile this evening. I enjoyed the last 20 lengths. This is a great sports centre. It's run by GLL. So why is Finchley Lido such a soulless dump? Worth visiting again. Only thing that let the place down was the cold, pokey changing rooms.

Pool was pretty deserted when I left just after 9pm, take note.

Kale, chickpea and potato curry for tea.