[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":88},["ShallowReactive",2],{"latest-published-pool-number":3,"page-\u002Fpool\u002Ffitness-first-frankfurt-opernplatz":4,"surround-\u002Fpool\u002Ffitness-first-frankfurt-opernplatz":79},303,{"id":5,"title":6,"address":7,"body":8,"city":46,"country":47,"date":48,"description":49,"device":50,"distance":51,"extension":52,"featured_image":53,"gallery":54,"googlemap":59,"lanes":60,"latitude":61,"length":62,"longitude":63,"meta":64,"metaDescription":65,"metaTitle":65,"navigation":66,"ogImage":65,"pace":67,"path":68,"pool":69,"published":66,"rating":70,"review":71,"robots":65,"schemaOrg":65,"seo":72,"setupLanes":65,"setupLength":65,"setupUnits":65,"sitemap":73,"state":65,"stem":74,"tags":75,"type":76,"units":77,"url":65,"__hash__":78},"pools\u002Fpool\u002F189.fitness-first-frankfurt-opernplatz.md","Fitness First Frankfurt - Opernplatz","Hochstraße 44, 60313 Frankfurt am Main, Germany",{"type":9,"value":10,"toc":42},"minimark",[11,15,18,21,24,27,30,33,36,39],[12,13,14],"p",{},"Great to be back in the pool nearly five weeks after coming off my new Yeti SB-140 moutain bike at the Cannock Chase bike park - which earned me ten rather painful stitches in the lower palm!",[12,16,17],{},"I'm in Frankfurt for an event - we're rolling out some new features for our Eventware event tech platform and keen to see how they hold up in the real world.",[12,19,20],{},"Staying at the Hilton Frankfurt, which has its own great 25m pool - unfortunately closed for maintenance until next week. Luckily, the Hilton staff pointed me to a Fitness First just 200m down the street that's accepting guests in the meantime.",[12,22,23],{},"Hard to believe this is the first German pool on the list! I used to visit Germany often and definitely swam in a few pools here before I started documenting them for the blog.",[12,25,26],{},"This swim had a lot of “Sprechen Sie Englisch?” moments - from reception, to the half-naked guy in the changing room who showed me how to use the fancy RFID card to open and close a locker, to my lane buddy asking if I wanted to split the lane.",[12,28,29],{},"The pool's in a Fitness First health club in Frankfurt city centre - a rather fancy one at that. Several floors of gym, a climbing wall, and other sports facilities descend a few levels from the street-level reception.",[12,31,32],{},"Out on the basement pool deck is a three-lane, 25m pool in classic German steel-and-concrete style. The pool itself is a dimpled stainless steel tub with splash plates up the walls and a concrete ceiling overhead, dotted with round light wells. Very cool setup.",[12,34,35],{},"I jump in to check how the hand's holding up... not sure what I was expecting - it's pretty much healed over now, but still looks grim. Vaseline seems to be doing the job just fine.",[12,37,38],{},"The water is crystal clear, perfectly tempered, and lit from below the surface. I'd planned a slow and easy 1km swim - just enough to count the pool - and ended up doing 48 lengths, broken into a kilometre and a couple of 100s. Pretty slow going, thanks to five weeks off and a few swim buddies doing their best dolphin impressions in the next lane!",[12,40,41],{},"Flying back to the UK this afternoon, so it's a quick shower, a wander through leafy Frankfurt suburbs, and a tourist stop at the viewing gallery atop the Frankfurt Main Tower.",{"title":43,"searchDepth":44,"depth":44,"links":45},"",2,[],"Frankfurt","Germany","2025-06-06","First swim since the 'injury'!","Garmin Forerunner 965",1200,"md","fitness-first-frankfurt-opernplatz-square.webp",[53,55,56,57,58],"fitness-first-frankfurt-opernplatz-entrance.webp","fitness-first-frankfurt-opernplatz-bouldering.webp","fitness-first-frankfurt-opernplatz-skyline.webp","fitness-first-frankfurt-opernplatz-hand.webp","https:\u002F\u002Fmaps.app.goo.gl\u002FeBJ68v9MhBGUCaFGA","3",50.115936,25,8.6740806,{},null,true,"1:32","\u002Fpool\u002Ffitness-first-frankfurt-opernplatz",189,75,"I really like these city-centre, stainless steel basement pools you find in Germany. As expected from a private health club, the facilities were excellent – both in and out of the water.",{"title":6,"description":49},{"loc":68,"lastmod":48},"pool\u002F189.fitness-first-frankfurt-opernplatz",[],"Indoor","m","NQHMgZgVpUJ7Ifh8vXzE-xAPpW2TEIeIWvCxDIjieGg",[80,84],{"title":81,"path":82,"stem":83,"children":-1},"Llandudno Swimming Centre","\u002Fpool\u002Fllandudno-swimming-centre","pool\u002F190.llandudno-swimming-centre",{"title":85,"path":86,"stem":87,"children":-1},"Henbury Leisure Centre","\u002Fpool\u002Fhenbury-leisure-centre","pool\u002F188.henbury-leisure-centre",1789678156107]