Human beings are always looking for signs and concidences and ascribing meaning to them. 'Apophenia' is the term coined by Klaus Conrad to describe the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data.  You can either believe there is a meaning to the pattern or not.  Life's gestalt, how does your brain decide?

What has this got to do with swimming?  Not much, maybe.  Like a drunken tool, I hurt my right arm when arm-wrestling.  It's getting much better, thankfully.  Also, I sat opposite a girl on the train today who looked the spit of Velma from Scooby-Doo.  Glasses, jumper everything.  On the way out, I met two girls in evening dress, one was wearing a big pair of glasses, trying and failing to cover the bruises around her eyes.  I have begun to notice that tap-water is tasting a little worse. 

All this and more is weighing on my mind, and as I try to find a connection between these events I can't.  Not apophenia so.  At least seeing odd things gives me something to think about when swimming.

TriAthy tomorrow.  Looking forward to it.