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
Why would a swim instructor wear such strong pungent perfume at a class session?
To impress the Ladies? Guys? Anyone within nose-shot? :D
I've encountered numerous items listed above, so it's good (or bad) to know this happens to others as well. Really haven't had anything outside of physical problems ruin my swim. Recently the pool thermostat has been on the mend, so they've been adjusting the temp manually. When it was 78° it was great, although chilly if you weren't moving. When they cranked it up to 88° two days later, I got in, swam about 1000yds, and couldn't do much more than that.
I've found the following in the pool when swimming: scorpions, brown grass spiders, band-aids, hair, pieces of toilet? paper, rocks, ear plugs, and possibly some other stuff that I can't remember currently. Please understand, these items have been found on random occasions, and for the most part our pool is clean and pretty much uncrowded. On the other hand, we have a local outdoor 50m pool that doubles as a lap pool in the mornings, and a rec pool in the afternoons. One summer while swimming laps, I observed a tampon at the bottom of the lane I was swimming in. That was enough to get me out.
:p
Why would a swim instructor wear such strong pungent perfume at a class session?
To impress the Ladies? Guys? Anyone within nose-shot? :D
I've encountered numerous items listed above, so it's good (or bad) to know this happens to others as well. Really haven't had anything outside of physical problems ruin my swim. Recently the pool thermostat has been on the mend, so they've been adjusting the temp manually. When it was 78° it was great, although chilly if you weren't moving. When they cranked it up to 88° two days later, I got in, swam about 1000yds, and couldn't do much more than that.
I've found the following in the pool when swimming: scorpions, brown grass spiders, band-aids, hair, pieces of toilet? paper, rocks, ear plugs, and possibly some other stuff that I can't remember currently. Please understand, these items have been found on random occasions, and for the most part our pool is clean and pretty much uncrowded. On the other hand, we have a local outdoor 50m pool that doubles as a lap pool in the mornings, and a rec pool in the afternoons. One summer while swimming laps, I observed a tampon at the bottom of the lane I was swimming in. That was enough to get me out.
:p
