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
For me, it's gotta be this one...but lane sharing isn't a problem for me. It may be a problem for the other person who has to swim with me though!! :)
The problem happens at my YMCA pool when 3 people end up having to swim in a lane, and the others don't have a clue what circle swimming is. And in general, the people don't know how to group themselves somewhat based on speed. That makes it rough when 3 or more try to swim circles in a lane.
I just tell the others that I don't mind swimming with them, and not to bother stopping for me. I'll find my way around if I have to...even if that means taking a flip turn at the flags to pass two people at once who happen to be at or near the one end of the pool. :D With my "aggressive" (not mean spirited) swimming, most lap swimmers don't usually just hop right in with me anyway.
It just sucks when you have an awesome workout planned, you're all alone, warming up, getting into the main set, and then all of a sudden you're bombarded by a couple of people that want to "do laps" in your lane. :bouncing: "Do you mind if we share with you?" I've always wanted to answer back with: "Hell yeah I mind!!" :bolt:
Errrm... I have no comments.... Couple months I had to swim in the evening and the situation in the pool sometimes looked like this www.sportsection.ru/.../feb07ed4c3a93374f57ea5e61013eb54.jpg
I got used to that because there are only 2 options in the evening: 1) to swim in the crowded pool or 2) not to swim at all. So I had to accustom.
The only thing I tried to avoid in such situation was backstroke because once I had an accident with one noodler swimming lazy breaststroke - when he went to a kind of streamline underwater I swam on top of him without seeing him and when he went for air I was there on top and he started to panic because he couldn't get to the surface. Happily he didn't get drawn. :afraid:
Even now when I swim very early in the morning I have to share a lane with 1-2 people who swim slower than me I got so used to that that I don't even notice them and automatically take over.
Still there is a thing I don't like and have to overcome myself - it's cold. When I get from shower to the pool space where both water and air are cold I have desire to escape back to the shower :bolt:so it takes an effort to make myself to jump to the water and warm up. After couple lengths I'm fine.
For me, it's gotta be this one...but lane sharing isn't a problem for me. It may be a problem for the other person who has to swim with me though!! :)
The problem happens at my YMCA pool when 3 people end up having to swim in a lane, and the others don't have a clue what circle swimming is. And in general, the people don't know how to group themselves somewhat based on speed. That makes it rough when 3 or more try to swim circles in a lane.
I just tell the others that I don't mind swimming with them, and not to bother stopping for me. I'll find my way around if I have to...even if that means taking a flip turn at the flags to pass two people at once who happen to be at or near the one end of the pool. :D With my "aggressive" (not mean spirited) swimming, most lap swimmers don't usually just hop right in with me anyway.
It just sucks when you have an awesome workout planned, you're all alone, warming up, getting into the main set, and then all of a sudden you're bombarded by a couple of people that want to "do laps" in your lane. :bouncing: "Do you mind if we share with you?" I've always wanted to answer back with: "Hell yeah I mind!!" :bolt:
Errrm... I have no comments.... Couple months I had to swim in the evening and the situation in the pool sometimes looked like this www.sportsection.ru/.../feb07ed4c3a93374f57ea5e61013eb54.jpg
I got used to that because there are only 2 options in the evening: 1) to swim in the crowded pool or 2) not to swim at all. So I had to accustom.
The only thing I tried to avoid in such situation was backstroke because once I had an accident with one noodler swimming lazy breaststroke - when he went to a kind of streamline underwater I swam on top of him without seeing him and when he went for air I was there on top and he started to panic because he couldn't get to the surface. Happily he didn't get drawn. :afraid:
Even now when I swim very early in the morning I have to share a lane with 1-2 people who swim slower than me I got so used to that that I don't even notice them and automatically take over.
Still there is a thing I don't like and have to overcome myself - it's cold. When I get from shower to the pool space where both water and air are cold I have desire to escape back to the shower :bolt:so it takes an effort to make myself to jump to the water and warm up. After couple lengths I'm fine.
