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!
One of the pools I have swum was like a glass house full of windows, and they were very strict about closing when there is even a possibility of thunder/lightning. Another pool, with few windows, never closes during thunder/lightning. Do the windows have a role in the risks?
And by the way, some staff members couldn't wait to close the pool due to weather in hope they could go home earlier. They couldn't hide the smile on their faces.
Oh, that's a whole other topic! Our lifeguards spend half the time opening the door to listen for that all too desirable thunderclap so they don't have to do their job for a half hour. In my Outdoor pool, on a bright sunny day, guards who want to leave early, claim to hear thunder, which in reality was a passing truck or plane overhead. Very frustrating!
One of the pools I have swum was like a glass house full of windows, and they were very strict about closing when there is even a possibility of thunder/lightning. Another pool, with few windows, never closes during thunder/lightning. Do the windows have a role in the risks?
And by the way, some staff members couldn't wait to close the pool due to weather in hope they could go home earlier. They couldn't hide the smile on their faces.
Oh, that's a whole other topic! Our lifeguards spend half the time opening the door to listen for that all too desirable thunderclap so they don't have to do their job for a half hour. In my Outdoor pool, on a bright sunny day, guards who want to leave early, claim to hear thunder, which in reality was a passing truck or plane overhead. Very frustrating!
