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Or gym session.
The cooncil are offering a free swim in exchange for your email address. Looks like they are trying to promote their membership options. Its worked I didn't know they did a gym type membership, though i'm not really a gym type i do feel like getting back into my swimming.
I can see mailinator coming in very handy here....
Not worth £43.50 per month when you can go to the new one at QuarterMile for £19.99 and go 24 hours a day if you ask me...
Just had that conversation with a colleague, it depends what you want. Now we've moved office we lost access to the gym we had, the gym it's self was a bit naff but it did classes which were popular. Puregym doesn't do classes so its down to virgin which is a bit dearer and not as convenient if you want to use it at the weekend and don't live near it where as there are lots of council sites for about the same money.
tldr; Same price as Virgin but potentially more convenient.
Totally irrelevant to me since i'm never going to pay 50 quid a month for a gym i grudge paying £40 for the bus!
Good for the council. But (rant follows):
There was also an EEN story recently about the pools etc they are closing - eg Dalry (nearest to me and a number of other forumistas).
And 'aquanatal' (ante-natal exercise in water) is usefully offered at three places all on the fringes of town, which would take me longer to get to than I would spend in the water (it used to be offered where they had creches, but I think those are closed now, so no good reason for it).
And has anyone ever tried to find anything on their website? I challenge you to use the 'search activity' feature on anything like swimming lessons for under 5s? basically impossible to find - there are multiple over-lapping categories each of which are offered at different pools). Finally found a class that suits which is at a reasonably close pool, to be told that they no longer keep waiting lists because they no longer employ a 'swim co-ordinator'. And they tried to send me to pools miles out of town instead. Preference is given to 'continuing participants'. And you CANNOT search aquanatal on it at all.
And then (at least at craiglockhart) they do really useful things like offering kids gym only on tues-thurs but nothing on Mondays or Fridays (when lots of kids aren't in nursery).
blah, blah, blah. it is probably just me being inconvenient, but I just don't think they do enough to schedule activities or make it possible to find out what is on, or register for them. I would nominate Edin leisure for most dysfunctional website EVER; just primitive, no wonder they're trying to get people to join.
as always, google has an answer;
Thanks kaputnik (and the other 'helpful' person who emailed). the gracemount link may be useful (but why doesn't leith come up?).
however, if you follow k's first link, you still have to go to 'timetable/activity search'. you put in swimming, but there is no pull-down for aquanatal, and you get 311 not alphabetised results. And no aquanatal - even if you specify gracemount. Obviously you're not supposed to search 'swimming'?? But 'aquafit' - the same thing but not run by a midwife does get listed there....
thanks for trying to help folks, but i stick by my original judgement.
Didn't realise they were considering shutting Dalry (AGAIN). It would be a shame to loose that facility though tbh i haven't been in a decade. Think i might start though.
Dalry is a good pool but tbh I prefer going that bit further to Warrender nowadays.
Warrender bike parking helpfully up a ramp then down two steps...
Warrender is the one which in July told me to contact them in August to register, then in August said 'we can't register you until October'.
However, thanks to you guys sending me back to the timetable search, I discovered that there is a class we could do as drop in at Waterworld on Fridays, when previously I thought the only one on Fridays was pre-registration at Warrender. Amazing what you can stumble upon....
We took Rosie to swimming lessons at Porty pool on Sunday mornings (then gave her lunch at the cafe straight afterwards) which seemed to fit in well. The guy that took it was awfully good too.
I'm currently lacking a lock which i would trust my bike too in Dalry but i can walk there from the office in 10mins so i can leave the bike in a nice secure underground car park while i go for a swim.
Warrender looks nice but its a bit out the way and i'd need my lock... Man i'm lazy!
Ah yes, other factor in where they do parent and child, amte/postnatal etc -- must be mainly in pools with parking lots.
Stepdoh, very glad to hear you had good experience, but shlepping out to Porty on bus doesn't really appeal.
Car parking is probably just a factor is how popular a particular centre is. Which is in itself a depressing insight on our culture of taking the car even when a site has the excellent public transport links that Dalry has.
"even when a site has the excellent public transport links that Dalry has"
I bet most people don't about the Western Approach Road bus stops - or Telfer Subway.
On the subject of Warrender - the bike racks are in direct view of the full length windows of the gym - although I wouldn't suggest this as substitute for a lock, it's a well observed and well lit area that might not demand a cat-15 lock.
True - and they were laughing at me struggle with the child seat, child and two pannier bags against the puddles, the uneven slop of the tarmac and then the stair in the puring rain... I hadn't remembered a towel that day and it didn't matter anyway, soaked through the waterproofs, would have been better cycling home in the swimming kit with flip flops on
Which I have done before (the flip flops not the swimming gear)
*cough* took the car. :) Although parking around porty pool is a frickin' nightmare.
We used to go to Dalry pool for swimming lessons when I was at Primary School. I didn't have any appreciation for the architectural history; all I knew was that the floors were cold and hard, the water was cold, and our swimming teacher was scary. I don't think I've ever been to Warrender!
My Gran worked in Dalry when it was a public bath house - one of the perks of the job being free out-of-hours baths for my old man and having the laundry done in the boiler house!
I think by the time she worked in Warrender, housing had moved on to the point where the masses could wash themselves and their clothes at home and it was well on the route to being rebranded a "swim centre"
IMHO Infirmary Street was the best - just that bit bigger in the lane width. Warrender and Glenogle neck and neck (Glenogle has a song by fringe performer Jane Bom Bane called The Edinburgh Mermaid about a woman you used to see swimming there who lost a leg when she was wee, i shudder to say this, in a tram accident`i think). Dalry after these ones. Infirmary St and Glenogle closed now, Glenogle shoud reopen. I just did my first swimfit class at Balerno - bailed out after 60 to get No 1 child from Guides. But she is happy to walk up to the pool next week to laugh at her dad trying for the ton. I cannot hear anything as earplugs did not work, nor did my nylon cap (the one wear under helmet in winter when cycling). All very comical. Will be lip reading tomorrow when interviewing at this rate.
@gembo - I work just along from Glenogle and it is open again
Doing the ton is easy enough :P I did 200 for the swimathon.org and actually came in much faster than I had anticipated (not that I was racing my sister who has done the 5k every year since 1996 and I had only started on the 2.5k last year... oh nooo... nor did I keep looking up as I neared the ton to see if she was still in the water, and she was until I hit 160 so she only finished 1k ahead of me hah...)
5k - Part man - part fish
Went to Dalry Swim baths for first time yesterday - they are very nice!
EDC are intending to sell off part of Inverleith park for housing too. The council really does not seem to value green sites or their other assets. What they have allowed to be done in Inch park leaves a great deal to be desired, and I have always had a problem with cars being allowed to use a narrow road that runs through it as a rat run, and am of the opinion that cars should just not be allowed to enter it from the Gilmerton road, but that if the occupants of vehicles wish to use Inch house facilities then they should come off the Old Dalkeith Road end. A club house for a rugby club is being built and all of the soil from the site is now being dumped in the park next to the playing fields.
http://www.inverleithpark.co.uk/#/save-the-park-campaign/4546597877
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/Campaign-to-halt-Inverleith-Park.6666424.jp
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