To anyone who uses the lap pool for Aquakinetics, I do not mean to offend. I suffer from an inner ear disorder (vertigo, tinnitus, motion sickness). A severe vertigo attack while running scared me enough to stop running. It's nothing short of a miracle that I can swim. I pick times at the pool when there are no Aquakinetics, zumba, swim team practice, or other big wave producing classes, so these times are few and far between. Our pool is 25 yds. and 7 ' at deepest end. Not very wave proof.
At exactly the same time I swim, this guy has been coming in and taking a lane, and for 2 hours he pushes the water around with his arms, creating added waves, doing some version of Aquakinetics. Please don't blast me, it's so unpleasant and I don't get what it is actually doing for him, other than annoying me (and other swimmers who actually want to use a lane). It's not his problem that I have motion sensitivity, but I can't move my time around. I'm not a competitive swimmer, but I do work hard in the pool. Thanks for listening to my rant.:blah:
I am sorry for your situation. I hope that you can find some sort of resolution that works for you. I'm not bashing you, but you have to realize that everyone uses the pool in different ways for their own purposes...whatever they might be. I swim, and lifeguard at a pool on a Navy base. I regularly see a variety of outlandish and odd activities. From people doing some kind of butterfly stroke with foam dumbbell buoys in their hands, to people who want to swim in a mermaid mono-fin costume, to active-duty guys preparing for their underwater swim test to get into SEAL training. But my point is, expecting a pool to be wave-less, is not far from expecting it to not be wet. If that one person is taking up a whole lane to himself...maybe bringing the disruption up with the pool manager might be helpful.
Dan
Hi Dan, I sure don't expect a waveless pool. I doubt I will live long enough to see that, although my college pool was close to it. Because of the size and design, it gets choppy pretty quick. I just found a window of time where it is not too stressful on my inner ear issues. Ironic that he picks the exact same time to do his thing.
Not sure what the lane situation is, or if there are lane ropes, but anecdotally, I'll say that when I swim fly, and maybe *** I'm not sure, the people I typically see in the same window will not use the adjacent lane. If there are multiple lanes, and one of the outer lanes is available, perhaps you could ask the guy it he could use it, and try to put a lane between you and him? As stated above, if your time windw is variable, that would be the easiest thing.
