I came form California and I'm overweight. In fact I didn't take up swimming until again until I spent 3 years in Arizona. Now, there was a country club pool I could have swam there but I didn't. In fact in my area in Arizona there are public pools or health club pools as just are ready as there was in California. I think that many people back east are probably are into other sports more like figure Skating, in fact a top figure skater name Sasha Cohen went back there to get better coaching and a better facility. Also, just because Long Island isn't into swimming as much as the Pacific region doesn't mean they don't workout. Also, I enjoy indoor pools, something that both California and Arizona lack. The weather is not always rosy in either states. There are sometimes bad rain storms in California in the January or February period and Monsoon conditions in Arizona in the summer. The New Yorkers are a little wiser to built the indoor pools, in Tempe we had rain problems and the 800 was delayed until the next day and the 200 IM relays got cancel. Now back east and in the mid-west where pools are mainly indoors they could have continue on with the meet.
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Well, I remember swimming in the old LA Olympic pool (1932)this was in 1972 and yes there are some old pools in California too. Some have been updated like the Rose Bowl pool in Pasdenia. It was rebuilt in the 1990's. If New York gets the olympics, it might copy LA which built a new pool for the 1984 olympics from private money or Long Beach which is going with two portable pools for the olympic trials. USA swimming was not going to give Long Beach the olympic Trails with Belmont shores which was built in the late 1960's when Mark Spitz and Gary Hall Sr swam because it is over 30 years old. Long Beach is going to built two comtempoary portable pools for the Olympic Trails, this is a lot cheaper than building a new facility which would cost millions more than it did in the late 1960's. And I think that you can built more pools but there is a lack of land space back east. And California built a lot of there pools back before 1980 when land and construcation costs were a lot cheaper.
Well, I remember swimming in the old LA Olympic pool (1932)this was in 1972 and yes there are some old pools in California too. Some have been updated like the Rose Bowl pool in Pasdenia. It was rebuilt in the 1990's. If New York gets the olympics, it might copy LA which built a new pool for the 1984 olympics from private money or Long Beach which is going with two portable pools for the olympic trials. USA swimming was not going to give Long Beach the olympic Trails with Belmont shores which was built in the late 1960's when Mark Spitz and Gary Hall Sr swam because it is over 30 years old. Long Beach is going to built two comtempoary portable pools for the Olympic Trails, this is a lot cheaper than building a new facility which would cost millions more than it did in the late 1960's. And I think that you can built more pools but there is a lack of land space back east. And California built a lot of there pools back before 1980 when land and construcation costs were a lot cheaper.
