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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Some of you are right about lighting being still dangerioius in an indoor pool. I live in Arizona and the monsoons can bring danger. But regular rain with no lighting is ok in an indoor pool. I train in a health club pool indoors and a rec pool outdoors. Now, I also understand why Ion and others like outdoor pools because there is no echo and sometimes there is a stream built up in them. Ion just like California a lot which is his choice. My reason for leaving there is that I felt I was in rut. And there is pluses and minuses to the state just like places back east or in other parts of the country. Ion came from a country which was ruled by a dictator Caesareau. Any one who read current events over 10 years ago knows the type of country it was. And he has succeeded well in the United States. I don't know his background but he came from a poorer background than probably all of us.
Some of you are right about lighting being still dangerioius in an indoor pool. I live in Arizona and the monsoons can bring danger. But regular rain with no lighting is ok in an indoor pool. I train in a health club pool indoors and a rec pool outdoors. Now, I also understand why Ion and others like outdoor pools because there is no echo and sometimes there is a stream built up in them. Ion just like California a lot which is his choice. My reason for leaving there is that I felt I was in rut. And there is pluses and minuses to the state just like places back east or in other parts of the country. Ion came from a country which was ruled by a dictator Caesareau. Any one who read current events over 10 years ago knows the type of country it was. And he has succeeded well in the United States. I don't know his background but he came from a poorer background than probably all of us.
