What makes you (or makes you want) to stop your swim workout, aside from being tired or feeling hurt?
- Sharing Lanes: Sometimes when I go to share a lane with someone, I'll get in, they'll do another lap, and get out. I feel guilty. I have on a couple occasions gotten out when people want to split lanes with me, especially if they're annoying and touch me/swim into me.
- Team Practices: I don't know why, but if I'm not part of the team practice that's in the pool, I don't want to be there. Maybe I just feel lazy next to them.
- Thinking about food: Food (particularly donuts for some reason) makes me feel sick while swimming. I've thrown up in my mouth on several occasions due to thinking about food while swimming. I love food, I love thinking about food, but not while swimming.
- Little kid swim lessons: The last time i swam next to this I got smacked in the face with an oar to an inflatable boat.
- The creepy middle aged guy that hangs out at the end of my lane to stretch when there are 7 open lanes. Wearing briefs, giant goggles, and covered in hair. Doing odd exercises like thrusting the ground or stretching hs hip flexors widely on the diving blocks. :bolt:
- Broken pace clocks
Having to move lanes.
I don't practice with a team these days, instead swimming at the local Y. They have a six-lane pool with the middle two lanes set up for circle swimming. The other four are split (two swimmers per lane).
I used to always aim for the middle lanes because that's what I was used to when swimming with a team. Now I realize that's an invitation to disaster. Circle swimming is fine when everyone is doing the same thing and is approximately the same speed. Sometimes the four split lanes will be full, and the circle lanes will each have at least one noodle-speed swimmer. Adjusting your workout to not run them over can be (not) fun. You always have your eyes peeled for an empty half of a split lane (but not next to the wall because they have ladders and the handicapped elevator, and, well, it's the wall - who could ever swim backstroke next to the wall???). So, really, in the best of circumstances, there are two circle lanes and three split lanes.
Then one of the kids teams gets in and takes four lanes, so you have to move. Now there's one circle lane, one split lane. If you're lucky you're the first person to notice one of the split lane swimmers get out. So you move again. I have moved as many as three times during a swim.
Maybe you get in when one age group squad is taking three lanes, then another smaller squad arrives and takes two lanes. Move to the middle. Nothing but the circle lane. Actually, that situation isn't all that bad. Most other swimmers simply get out at that point and you have that center lane all to yourself. :D
Then there's the coach who feels that the digital clock must be reset at the start of the team's practice. Which is right about two-thirds of the way through your workout, approximately 175 yards into a 400...
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Having to move lanes.
I don't practice with a team these days, instead swimming at the local Y. They have a six-lane pool with the middle two lanes set up for circle swimming. The other four are split (two swimmers per lane).
I used to always aim for the middle lanes because that's what I was used to when swimming with a team. Now I realize that's an invitation to disaster. Circle swimming is fine when everyone is doing the same thing and is approximately the same speed. Sometimes the four split lanes will be full, and the circle lanes will each have at least one noodle-speed swimmer. Adjusting your workout to not run them over can be (not) fun. You always have your eyes peeled for an empty half of a split lane (but not next to the wall because they have ladders and the handicapped elevator, and, well, it's the wall - who could ever swim backstroke next to the wall???). So, really, in the best of circumstances, there are two circle lanes and three split lanes.
Then one of the kids teams gets in and takes four lanes, so you have to move. Now there's one circle lane, one split lane. If you're lucky you're the first person to notice one of the split lane swimmers get out. So you move again. I have moved as many as three times during a swim.
Maybe you get in when one age group squad is taking three lanes, then another smaller squad arrives and takes two lanes. Move to the middle. Nothing but the circle lane. Actually, that situation isn't all that bad. Most other swimmers simply get out at that point and you have that center lane all to yourself. :D
Then there's the coach who feels that the digital clock must be reset at the start of the team's practice. Which is right about two-thirds of the way through your workout, approximately 175 yards into a 400...
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