Just wondering, when lane swimming and a faster swimmer can't for some reason go around a slower swimmer (narrow lane, busy lane, slower swimmer is in the middle of the lane, whatever), is it acceptable etiquette for the faster swimmer to pass underneath the slower swimmer? Will that freak out the slower swimmer?
Alan
We have a couple of those as well...only they don't drop back very quickly. They just sort of hover there, so you're face-to-face on every flipturn. It doesn't bother me so much as makes me worry when I go to turn that I'll never be far enough over & hit them or get hit. But it hasn't happened yet...If there are specific sets where we want/need space we just emphasize the :05 between EACH swimmer.
My lane-mates tend to shove me out front when there's distance pacing work needed - they don't want to go out too fast - so I can be the guinea pig on the first few intervals. They're ALWAYS right there by the first 100 but they seem to be able to hold the right paces from then on...so it all works out in the end.
With it being spring & all the triathletes coming back to training we can get pretty packed on some days. It gets hectic with about 5-8 in a SCY lane. Luckily our paces tend to be somewhat close and/or the slower ones adjust themselves accordingly. Our lanes get nice & wide when it's LCM so we can have a middle "passing lane" that only really gets hectic if we're passing going both ways. I wasn't there, but there were apparently 10-12 in the lane yesterday swimming 400s. Ouch.
We have a couple of those as well...only they don't drop back very quickly. They just sort of hover there, so you're face-to-face on every flipturn. It doesn't bother me so much as makes me worry when I go to turn that I'll never be far enough over & hit them or get hit. But it hasn't happened yet...If there are specific sets where we want/need space we just emphasize the :05 between EACH swimmer.
My lane-mates tend to shove me out front when there's distance pacing work needed - they don't want to go out too fast - so I can be the guinea pig on the first few intervals. They're ALWAYS right there by the first 100 but they seem to be able to hold the right paces from then on...so it all works out in the end.
With it being spring & all the triathletes coming back to training we can get pretty packed on some days. It gets hectic with about 5-8 in a SCY lane. Luckily our paces tend to be somewhat close and/or the slower ones adjust themselves accordingly. Our lanes get nice & wide when it's LCM so we can have a middle "passing lane" that only really gets hectic if we're passing going both ways. I wasn't there, but there were apparently 10-12 in the lane yesterday swimming 400s. Ouch.
