During our Monday night practice, the chlorine was off the charts high. Several swimmers noticed lung discomfort while working out (we did a 4000 yard practice in 1-hour; necessarily some huffing and puffing.)
That night, I awoke with a burning in my throat and upper windpipe and lungs. It's since moderated a bit.
My questions: has anyone experienced "lung burn" like this? How long before you return to normal? Is there any remedy other than not swimming when the pool chemicals are really out of whack?
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Cynthia--the high school pool I swim at is open from about 6am to 10pm Five nights a week. On Saturdays there are swim classes for the kids. It is also 50 years old with a failing pump system BUT they do keep the water "good".
The pool has some early time where the school district employees are permitted to swim, then the swim team comes in for their early practice. During the day--classes are using the pool. Starting in the afternoon--high school swim team, followed in the early evenings by the swim club (6-14 yr olds). There is an adult only lap swimming (and we had to fight for that for years!) from 9-10pm on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. There are family swims from 8-9 on Wed and from 7-9 on Friday. Literally--we pull in the lane markers OVER the family swimmers a few nights a week--the swim club proceeds us a few nights a week so the lanes are already in. Tuesday nights is ONLY water exercise classes.
The janitors need time to keep the area clean so we're out of the locker rooms by 10:30pm.
The community and the school district are looking to build a 50 meter pool (and a smaller training pool) but that's about 2 years in the future. Meanwhile, the 50 yr old 5-lane 25 yd pool is all that's available to the community from September to May. In May--the outdoor 50 meter pool opens. That's busy, literally from 5:45am to 9pm 6 out of 7 days a week. Fridays the pool closes at 8pm so they can rent it out and make some money. There's alittle bit of time for masters (but the coach left and is now in Indiana) in the early morning (sometimes with the high school swim team) but the adults get only 2 hours (1 hr day, 1 hr night) for swimming--no lane markers and you deal with the water walkers and water exercise classes.
That's about it for many of us in the Atlantic Middle states. There are maybe 2 50meter pools in the area--one at a college and another at a high school. The high school pool has a moveable bulkhead which has been broken for a few years so it's not used as a 50 meter pool.
You're lucky out in Arizona--good weather year-round and perhaps heated outdoor pools. The pool in my community is heated by God so late May is too cold to swim and it closes on Labor Day even if it's 90+ degrees outside.
And this is one of the better off communities in Pittsburgh financially speaking.
Cynthia--the high school pool I swim at is open from about 6am to 10pm Five nights a week. On Saturdays there are swim classes for the kids. It is also 50 years old with a failing pump system BUT they do keep the water "good".
The pool has some early time where the school district employees are permitted to swim, then the swim team comes in for their early practice. During the day--classes are using the pool. Starting in the afternoon--high school swim team, followed in the early evenings by the swim club (6-14 yr olds). There is an adult only lap swimming (and we had to fight for that for years!) from 9-10pm on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. There are family swims from 8-9 on Wed and from 7-9 on Friday. Literally--we pull in the lane markers OVER the family swimmers a few nights a week--the swim club proceeds us a few nights a week so the lanes are already in. Tuesday nights is ONLY water exercise classes.
The janitors need time to keep the area clean so we're out of the locker rooms by 10:30pm.
The community and the school district are looking to build a 50 meter pool (and a smaller training pool) but that's about 2 years in the future. Meanwhile, the 50 yr old 5-lane 25 yd pool is all that's available to the community from September to May. In May--the outdoor 50 meter pool opens. That's busy, literally from 5:45am to 9pm 6 out of 7 days a week. Fridays the pool closes at 8pm so they can rent it out and make some money. There's alittle bit of time for masters (but the coach left and is now in Indiana) in the early morning (sometimes with the high school swim team) but the adults get only 2 hours (1 hr day, 1 hr night) for swimming--no lane markers and you deal with the water walkers and water exercise classes.
That's about it for many of us in the Atlantic Middle states. There are maybe 2 50meter pools in the area--one at a college and another at a high school. The high school pool has a moveable bulkhead which has been broken for a few years so it's not used as a 50 meter pool.
You're lucky out in Arizona--good weather year-round and perhaps heated outdoor pools. The pool in my community is heated by God so late May is too cold to swim and it closes on Labor Day even if it's 90+ degrees outside.
And this is one of the better off communities in Pittsburgh financially speaking.
