Hey gang,
I'm being watchful of the weather (and a free-lance deadline)--so I'm hoping that I don't run into the same problem as I did about a week ago.
At that time, I had set out to do a pretty long workout (need the yards for my open water swim!). Unfortunately, the lifeguards chased us out of the pool b/c of hearing thunder. They told me that they'd wait a half hour, but that the clock would be reset if there was more thunder.
Won't even get started on why this should be the case, but more important for my purposes is to get a sense of what you do if your schedule is tight and the time you set up for swimming a specific workout is thrown out due to something like this (heck, you can substitute other events that close pools, if you want, as the t-storm is just one way such a thing can happen).
Do you wait until who knows how long and hope the pool will reopen? Do something dry-land that will at least use the swimming muscles? Bag it and decide it's not your day? (As it happened, it was last Friday and although I'm not superstitious, mostly, it seemed as if that day was full of things that went wrong. Won't go into all that.)
I want--no, NEED, to make sure I'm staying abreast of the training and I hate missing time for something like that--and probably just need to plan better to go early in the morning when there are fewer thunderstorms--but that said, stuff happens (even early in the morning), so I want to have a good back-up plan--or be all Zen about it and know that over the long haul, I'll be ready.
Thanks for any thoughts!
copper pipes and electrical wires tend to conduct just a tiny bit better than water does.
now, granted, at the voltage a lightening bolt is at, it is for the most part a mute point.
but we all know electricity is lazy. it takes the shortest path to ground. chances (not that we should risk it outside) are zero the pool gets hit before something else: fence, dive tower, umbrellas, lifeguard chair....
and yes ive been swimming in an outdoor pool when the chimney of the building next to the pool was hit by lightening. the bottom got super bright yellow for a blink. we all jumped out.
and yes i've swam in hail. it was small.
and yes ive also been in an outdoor pool when we saw a tornado just 2 miles away. not just a funnel cloud but actual on the ground tornado. yes, dorthy and i were in kansas at the time. hate that dog toto. :D
copper pipes and electrical wires tend to conduct just a tiny bit better than water does.
now, granted, at the voltage a lightening bolt is at, it is for the most part a mute point.
but we all know electricity is lazy. it takes the shortest path to ground. chances (not that we should risk it outside) are zero the pool gets hit before something else: fence, dive tower, umbrellas, lifeguard chair....
and yes ive been swimming in an outdoor pool when the chimney of the building next to the pool was hit by lightening. the bottom got super bright yellow for a blink. we all jumped out.
and yes i've swam in hail. it was small.
and yes ive also been in an outdoor pool when we saw a tornado just 2 miles away. not just a funnel cloud but actual on the ground tornado. yes, dorthy and i were in kansas at the time. hate that dog toto. :D
