All you Y swimmers, I need some advice! Or maybe I just need to rant. Sometimes I swim at a community pool. There's a BIG sign right before you leave the locker room to "shower before entering the pool" and wouldn't ya know it...not everybody does. Invariably, I end up smalling/tasting lotion, grandpa-strength aftershave, hairspray, deoderant and what have you the whole workout. Don't these people realize what they do? How can I make them stop??? I don't understand why they don't shower. I just don't.
I think that every pool I've swam at has had signs posted indicating to shower before swimming. However, it is rarely enforced.
Right now, I don't think anyone who swims at the 6am workout even rinses off...its cold enough just running out to the pool in the winter, couldn't imagine if you were already wet.
One thing our coach does recommend is that people brush their teeth before practice. I guess he notices other kinds of odors...
Tim
