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!
This happened to me yesterday morning. Our lifeguards have a device that looks like a handheld police scanner with a series of lights on it that act as a 30 minute countdown. When thunder or lightning is detected at some tower somewhere, all of the lights turn on. So our lifeguards have no discretion on when to shut down the pool because of storms. As long as there are lights lit up, the pool will be closed.
Anyway, I hung out with the lifeguards for about 20 minutes until the "storm detector" lit up all the way again. I gave up and went into the weight room and learned how to use the weight machines. And today, I can't do anything because every muscle on my body hurts.
This happened to me yesterday morning. Our lifeguards have a device that looks like a handheld police scanner with a series of lights on it that act as a 30 minute countdown. When thunder or lightning is detected at some tower somewhere, all of the lights turn on. So our lifeguards have no discretion on when to shut down the pool because of storms. As long as there are lights lit up, the pool will be closed.
Anyway, I hung out with the lifeguards for about 20 minutes until the "storm detector" lit up all the way again. I gave up and went into the weight room and learned how to use the weight machines. And today, I can't do anything because every muscle on my body hurts.
