Hi Gang. I will be in San Diego the last week of April. I am debating if I need to rent a car, or if I can Uber myself to swim practice. Suggestions please? I looked at "Places to swim" and have no idea what is actually close to my hotel (Hilton Bayfront).
Being so close to Nationals, I would like to find a good pool/club to begin taper.
I have priced it out for a few business trips to SD and concluded that one or two workouts Uber-ing or Lyft-ing would cost the same as a rental car. So I rented a car.
I have not been to the Mission Valley Y because it is really expensive for day use.
UCSD is north in La Jolla. They charge $10 for out-of-town drop-in swimmers and they have a large early AM group with great energy. The experience is similar to dropping in at Pitt, but outside. :) You can park in a lot right by the pool and you don't have to pay if you go to the 6 am workout. Not sure if you go to the 7:30 am. I have been there at night, too, when they had few swimmers and I think that I did have to pay to park.
The other great option is to go to the municipal pool in Coronado and do a solo workout. It is long course in the early mornings; it is gorgeous; and it is practically empty. Also $10, with free parking on the street outside the pool.
Both of these places have shower and locker rooms that would allow you to dress for work if necessary.
Once in (I think) 2016 I went to a workout in Coronado at the Brian Bent Aquatic Center, which is a multi-pool complex at a high school. It wasn't really a Masters experience: the swimmers were me, a 60-ish guy, and three or four teenage girls. We had a fine workout together and I think I also paid $10 but I preferred repeating the UCSD and solo long course experiences.
I have never been to any of the San Diego municipal pools, or to an evening workout with any group other than the sparsely attended workout at UCSD several years ago.
I have priced it out for a few business trips to SD and concluded that one or two workouts Uber-ing or Lyft-ing would cost the same as a rental car. So I rented a car.
I have not been to the Mission Valley Y because it is really expensive for day use.
UCSD is north in La Jolla. They charge $10 for out-of-town drop-in swimmers and they have a large early AM group with great energy. The experience is similar to dropping in at Pitt, but outside. :) You can park in a lot right by the pool and you don't have to pay if you go to the 6 am workout. Not sure if you go to the 7:30 am. I have been there at night, too, when they had few swimmers and I think that I did have to pay to park.
The other great option is to go to the municipal pool in Coronado and do a solo workout. It is long course in the early mornings; it is gorgeous; and it is practically empty. Also $10, with free parking on the street outside the pool.
Both of these places have shower and locker rooms that would allow you to dress for work if necessary.
Once in (I think) 2016 I went to a workout in Coronado at the Brian Bent Aquatic Center, which is a multi-pool complex at a high school. It wasn't really a Masters experience: the swimmers were me, a 60-ish guy, and three or four teenage girls. We had a fine workout together and I think I also paid $10 but I preferred repeating the UCSD and solo long course experiences.
I have never been to any of the San Diego municipal pools, or to an evening workout with any group other than the sparsely attended workout at UCSD several years ago.
