For those of you with fewer than 4 people in a lane at workout, congratulations, this rant does not apply to you. I hope.
For the rest of us, especially those who regularly have to share with 8 or more per lane, does your coach keep the wall cleared so everyone has an opportunity to finish swimming? Or does the wall get cluttered with the first two or three people who think it is necessary to hold onto the gutter with both hands and have both feet on the ledge? And are oblivious to the idea that there may be other swimmers behind them that want to get a time for the full distance of the pool? Yeah, me too.
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Years ago there I saw an article (probably in SWIM magazine) that discussed lane etiquette. The coach that they interviewed instructed his swimmers to hang on the wall sideways, facing one lane line, so they would take up less space on the wall. I'm probably not describing it well but they would all be hanging on with their right hands, for example, and stacked up one behind the other like dominoes.
Years ago there I saw an article (probably in SWIM magazine) that discussed lane etiquette. The coach that they interviewed instructed his swimmers to hang on the wall sideways, facing one lane line, so they would take up less space on the wall. I'm probably not describing it well but they would all be hanging on with their right hands, for example, and stacked up one behind the other like dominoes.
