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
Hoping not to jinx anything, My local muni pool has reopened with few, if any restrictions other than numbers of swimmers in the pool at one time. Going to get in a workout tomorrow morning for the first time in over three months.
Cynthia,
I don't know if they'd share what system they're using, but the City of Rockville (Maryland) deployed an online system just this past week for their municipal pool and fitness center that seems in line with what you're looking for. You could maybe reach out to them and see if they'd share any information (the main phone number is 240-314-8750).
I am in the process of selecting software for our USMS club to use to allow swimmers to reserve lanes and am hoping to hear what other clubs are using. I'd especially like to hear from people who selected a tool, or swimmers whose club is having them reserve a spot with a tool. I have done a little searching for this topic here but haven't seen anything yet. I have not been a regular user here, so apologies if I missed something.
We don't have pool access yet, but hope to have up to 120 reservable lanes per week, so we are looking for a reservation system that's easy for someone to administer and easy for swimmers with a low price tag. So far I am comparing Google calendar (Gsuite), Schedulicity, Calendly, Skedda. So far schedulicity seems to be the closest to what we will need but I'm having trouble figuring out the cost after the free access expires.
Thanks for sharing your experiences.
Cynthia Hertzer, Santa Cruz Masters
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P.S. A little humor for shelter-in-place: www.swimmontereybay.org/. If you want to try this at home, the "observer report" is a parts list.
Hello All:
The pools are open again in South Carolina. In the ones out teams practice in we're following the USA Swimming & local health guidelines. Two per lane, opposite ends, social distancing when out of the water, etc. So far it seems to be working for us.
I feel so happy to be back in the water it's hard to express. I hope everyone can get in as soon as it's safe/possible to do so.
Best wishes to all, Benjamin/Zwemmer
Hoping not to jinx anything, My local muni pool has reopened with few, if any restrictions other than numbers of swimmers in the pool at one time. Going to get in a workout tomorrow morning for the first time in over three months.
​So, you didn't drive to South Dakota after all.
My son in law works at the local gym/pool facility. He is going to institute a "reservation" type schedule for the gym & pool areas, Only 70 people in the gym for 1 hour and then 10 min. for re-sanitizing.The 1 hour limit in the pool as well, with the life guards giving you notice to leave. Do you think this will work?
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