For me, it's now going on four weeks since my last swim. We were in Turks and Caicos March 7-14 for spring break where I was doing daily open-water swims along the beach. My last swim was a 3-miler on March 13. When we got back to the U.S., we had to go into mandated 14-day quarantine so I wasn't able to get out to go to the pool before they all closed. Who knows when I'll swim again...either open-water warming up (I live in RI), or pools opening again. I am maintaining fitness with bike rides, and a run here and there. And I know I there is other 'dry land' training I could be doing. But my concern when returning to the water is injuring myself because of doing TMTS. I'm just that kind of athlete. Raise you're hand if you think you're a candidate for a TMTS injury too.
Dan
Are you a Y member? If so, why should you have to pay an additional fee on a per lane basis?
This is the same question that we've been chasing our tail on for a while. The aquatics director seems bent on making things difficult, which is so odd as she used to coach Masters.
Before the closure for the virus, we had to pay an extra $20 a month on top of our membership fee for Masters. This was supposedly for coaching, but finding reliable coaching never seemed to work out. We constantly had no-show coaches or coaches that would show up late. The coach with the title of Head Coach resigned in October 2019, but he had been checked out for quite a while prior to his official resignation. 2017-19 our fee was $30 a month; it was lowered to $20 a month in January of this year due to the lack of a head coach.
I don't see how the director could justify charging us extra if a bunch of us show for lap swim and do a workout that someone has brought. We are using the lap swim space the same as any other member, and probably more efficiently since we share lane space and circle swim by ability. I guess if the Y ever re-opens the pool we can test this theory out.
Are you a Y member? If so, why should you have to pay an additional fee on a per lane basis?
This is the same question that we've been chasing our tail on for a while. The aquatics director seems bent on making things difficult, which is so odd as she used to coach Masters.
Before the closure for the virus, we had to pay an extra $20 a month on top of our membership fee for Masters. This was supposedly for coaching, but finding reliable coaching never seemed to work out. We constantly had no-show coaches or coaches that would show up late. The coach with the title of Head Coach resigned in October 2019, but he had been checked out for quite a while prior to his official resignation. 2017-19 our fee was $30 a month; it was lowered to $20 a month in January of this year due to the lack of a head coach.
I don't see how the director could justify charging us extra if a bunch of us show for lap swim and do a workout that someone has brought. We are using the lap swim space the same as any other member, and probably more efficiently since we share lane space and circle swim by ability. I guess if the Y ever re-opens the pool we can test this theory out.
