I'm curious as to your preference, so I decided to start a poll. I've been swimming outdoors all summer. It's been brutally hot, with high humidity most of the summer, which I notice, causes more fatigue and cramping, despite my intake of bananas, lots of water, etc. I also have allergies. There are the usual outdoor pool issues, but aside from that, if you had a choice to swim in a 25 yard pool or swim indoors in a more temperature controlled environment, what would you prefer and why?
I like swimming outdoors, but my experience doing so as a Masters swimmer has been pretty terrible. For my age group career, it was indoors 25y in the fall/spring, and outdoors during the summer, 50m in the mornings, 25m in the evenings. My Masters team does indoor 25y in the fall/spring, and outdoors 25m in the summer. Unfortunately, most of the outdoor pools are rather rundown neighborhood pools. Not only do you have to contend with frequent evening thunder storms, but you also get to deal with bad pool lighting, narrow lanes, no backstroke flags, and no pace clock. We swim at 4 pools during the summer--the two evening pools are pretty awful. The two morning pools have decent sized lanes and have flags, but one of them *always* has chemical problems. Not sure if the guards during the daytime are just godawful at their jobs in terms of controlling the chemicals, or if there is something flawed with the pump system, but the chemicals are almost always out of order at our early morning practices. The other morning pool is just fine.
If we had accessible quality outdoor pools around here, I'd love to swim outdoors during the summer. As it stands, with how terrible half our pools are, I end up swimming on my own indoors during the summer, so I know I'll at least have adequate lighting, flags, and a clock.
I like swimming outdoors, but my experience doing so as a Masters swimmer has been pretty terrible. For my age group career, it was indoors 25y in the fall/spring, and outdoors during the summer, 50m in the mornings, 25m in the evenings. My Masters team does indoor 25y in the fall/spring, and outdoors 25m in the summer. Unfortunately, most of the outdoor pools are rather rundown neighborhood pools. Not only do you have to contend with frequent evening thunder storms, but you also get to deal with bad pool lighting, narrow lanes, no backstroke flags, and no pace clock. We swim at 4 pools during the summer--the two evening pools are pretty awful. The two morning pools have decent sized lanes and have flags, but one of them *always* has chemical problems. Not sure if the guards during the daytime are just godawful at their jobs in terms of controlling the chemicals, or if there is something flawed with the pump system, but the chemicals are almost always out of order at our early morning practices. The other morning pool is just fine.
If we had accessible quality outdoor pools around here, I'd love to swim outdoors during the summer. As it stands, with how terrible half our pools are, I end up swimming on my own indoors during the summer, so I know I'll at least have adequate lighting, flags, and a clock.
