I've trained and competed mostly outside since I've been doing Masters and have noticed that I lose some of my excitement when I compete indoors. I can see better and feel more "happy endorphins" when I'm racing outdoors. If you can relate or have found a way to overcome this, please let me know.
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I completely empathize with you, I grew up in the sunshine state and swimming year round outdoors, I always felt indoor pools were where big meets like districts and states were held but even that pool had a retractable roof haha. I now live in Virgina and can't seem to find a good outdoor pool to workout at, extremely tired of the indoor pool. This past weekend I was determined to find a lane outdoors, so I went to the "aquatic center" (in my mind an aquatic center has a lap pool with maybe some kiddie pools on the side) not at all what I expected haha it should be re-named water park, although they did have a lane set up, I took advantage of it but had to deal with kids jumping in and out of the lane (couldn't really complaine to much since I knew full well what I was getting into when I got there) but even if they had all lanes set up it could only hold 4 lane, oye! Looks like I will just be sucking it up and keep swimming indoors.
I completely empathize with you, I grew up in the sunshine state and swimming year round outdoors, I always felt indoor pools were where big meets like districts and states were held but even that pool had a retractable roof haha. I now live in Virgina and can't seem to find a good outdoor pool to workout at, extremely tired of the indoor pool. This past weekend I was determined to find a lane outdoors, so I went to the "aquatic center" (in my mind an aquatic center has a lap pool with maybe some kiddie pools on the side) not at all what I expected haha it should be re-named water park, although they did have a lane set up, I took advantage of it but had to deal with kids jumping in and out of the lane (couldn't really complaine to much since I knew full well what I was getting into when I got there) but even if they had all lanes set up it could only hold 4 lane, oye! Looks like I will just be sucking it up and keep swimming indoors.
