Short Course Yards- GCIT in Glouchester County New Jersey. I swam pretty fast at meets there
Long Course Meters is this pool in Buffalo, NY. It was in downtown Buffalo at this Community College. I missed my Junior National Cut years ago at the pool by a second. I just remember it being able to fly through that water there.
Ande,
Just looking at the pool and so many practices you can do, I would move to Austin just for that Masters program. That pool is like a swimmer's fantasy pool to train at. No wonder Hansen became so great. His age group facility(we both came out of the same age group club, Suburban) and they rent pools to train at and in the summer, the long course pool we went to was bloody awful. The summer club were only let Suburban use the long course four days a week because they would clean it on Wednesday. Suburban couldn't tell them to go F*** themselves because there was no other long course pool to train in my county. Recently, a YMCA wanted to build a 50 meter pool but these crazy parents didn't like the idea because it would create too much traffic or something.
Does a jacuzzi at my team complex count?
Actually, I love our home team complex.
That would be Mission Viejo Nadadores facility.
I like the new aquatics center in Santa Clarita (CA), and I like Long Beach, Belmont, the olympic facility, I seem to swim fast in that one, but I'm not too crazy about the indoors, I'm always freezing there. It's got a good ventillation allright, but no sun or a place to stay warm.
Originally posted by ande
texas swim center in austin where I work out
you can see a pic at
http://www.tsc.utexas.edu/
the bulkheads usually aren't down.
that's just for championship meets
Ande
Ande:
Very nice facility you have there in Texas....though as they mention of world records broken, some questions come to my mind:
- What kind of size pool do you have at the Texas Swimming Center, yard or meter size pools?, or both?
These questions go ahead for another question:
- When talking about World record, are they only considered when they are at meters size pools or can also be at yard size pools?
This is just quriosity, as I have never swan in a yard size pool.
Not that I am thinking on getting close to a yard pool master world record, but besides my quriosity for world records, I am also wondering if in a yard pool, I could beat the two better than me team mates in a 50 yard race, as I am a better starter than finisher, and many times in 50 meter pools they beat me just by an inch, or better said by a centimeter.
Alex :)
Ande,
I love the pool in Austin as well.
In high school, I swam in the last Texas High School State Championship in Gregory Gym - not fast, almost got my name on the record board (presumably forever...) since the next year we swam one of the first meats at the swim center.
Wow. Never had I felt so small, or swimming such a spectacle, as an early competitor in that facility.
I'd also vote for the rec center at the University of Maryland, nice big fast pool with lots of daylight and Phelps records on the wall.
DV
Colman Pool in Seattle is certainly one of the more interesting pools around. It's an outdoor, 50 meter, city-owned pool. It's setting is pretty spectacular--right on Puget Sound with a view of the Olympic Mountains to the west. It's pretty old so it isn't exactly what you'd call a fast pool, but it makes up for it in character! For example water is drawn in from the Sound (and filtered, of course) so there's definitely a salty taste. Also, it's in the middle of a large park, so if you drive there you have to park at least 1/4 mile away and walk in.
I'd much rather swim a workout there than in the "world class" King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way. At least in the summer, that is :)
Originally posted by DocWhoRocks
As for a real pool, my favorite is IUPUI. Everytime I swam there growing up I had a lifetime best. Won zones there, got my first junior cuts, always had great swims there. Heat lamps over the bleachers, all the olympians on the wall, nice warm diving well, I love that place.
Doc, I'm with you!! Had the privelage to watch the World Championship trials at that pool, and also compete in it again for the YMCA nationals this year.....
it's fabulous.
Originally posted by craiglll@yahoo.com
It is not a great pool, but Marie Reed in Adams Morgan in Washington, DC is great when it is snowing. You can watch the snow fall as you are doing your laps. The entire wall at the deep end of the pool is one big window.
Hartwick College Pool in Oneonta, NY sits way up on a hillside with a 25 + yard window wall overlooking the city, river, and
bucolic farm land below...truly amazing...great memories too.
