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
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I stopped the day a guy had a seizure on the side of the pool, fell in, and had to be rescued by the lifeguard. Other people kept swimming and I took it upon myself to stop everyone in the other lanes so that the lifeguard could focus and we would be available to get additional help if needed. The ambulance came, the man was taken to the hospital, and while some folks started swimming again, I just couldn't get there. Somehow, it felt disrespectful.
We did find out later that he was fine, thankfully.
Back when I was a lifeguard, I was told if there was an emergency that required the use of the lifeguards (1 or more), the pool was to be cleared because now no one is watching the water. Good for you for getting the other people out of the water. Glad to hear the guy is ok.
I had a small kid have a seizure in the pool once. Scariest moment of my life. I know seizures are "common" (relatively speaking) in children and that they aren't known to cause direct damage (usually the result of instantly using consciousness causes the problems- traumatic injuries, drowning, etc). Being a kid its concerning, and knowing there is nothing you can really do except wait sucks.
Back to the subject: Away meets at pools with gross locker rooms. I feel like dirty locker rooms equates to dirty pools. If they can't take care of the lock room, how can they take care of the pool. I once had a meet at an inner city school. The pool tasted like sweat and was like 99 degrees. The locker room looked like something out of the SAW movies. There was blood on the floor and walls in one area. Everything was rusted or tarnished. Garbage everywhere. I heard the girls locker room was even worse with used tampons and pads all over the place.
Finding a carrot in the pool killed my swim once. I finished my set, pulled my goggles up to rest and get a drink. Next to me floating in the water is a carrot. I'm not sure if someone was eating in the natatorium or if someone vomited it up. I got out of the pool immediately suspecting the worst.
I stopped the day a guy had a seizure on the side of the pool, fell in, and had to be rescued by the lifeguard. Other people kept swimming and I took it upon myself to stop everyone in the other lanes so that the lifeguard could focus and we would be available to get additional help if needed. The ambulance came, the man was taken to the hospital, and while some folks started swimming again, I just couldn't get there. Somehow, it felt disrespectful.
We did find out later that he was fine, thankfully.
Back when I was a lifeguard, I was told if there was an emergency that required the use of the lifeguards (1 or more), the pool was to be cleared because now no one is watching the water. Good for you for getting the other people out of the water. Glad to hear the guy is ok.
I had a small kid have a seizure in the pool once. Scariest moment of my life. I know seizures are "common" (relatively speaking) in children and that they aren't known to cause direct damage (usually the result of instantly using consciousness causes the problems- traumatic injuries, drowning, etc). Being a kid its concerning, and knowing there is nothing you can really do except wait sucks.
Back to the subject: Away meets at pools with gross locker rooms. I feel like dirty locker rooms equates to dirty pools. If they can't take care of the lock room, how can they take care of the pool. I once had a meet at an inner city school. The pool tasted like sweat and was like 99 degrees. The locker room looked like something out of the SAW movies. There was blood on the floor and walls in one area. Everything was rusted or tarnished. Garbage everywhere. I heard the girls locker room was even worse with used tampons and pads all over the place.
Finding a carrot in the pool killed my swim once. I finished my set, pulled my goggles up to rest and get a drink. Next to me floating in the water is a carrot. I'm not sure if someone was eating in the natatorium or if someone vomited it up. I got out of the pool immediately suspecting the worst.
