What is your pet peeve about swimming?

RE: What is your pet peeve about swimming?

opeleroy — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 11:40:35 GMT

Water in the ears. A lifelong earplug wearer (Mack's fo life!), but even those bastions of silicone sealing-ness don't always work. Starfish breaststroker kickers. You know who you are. Fellow swimmers who use the pool like a Kleenex.

RE: What is your pet peeve about swimming?

Former Member — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 14:50:17 GMT

:bliss:Well said, pwb, well said! :applaud: My pet peeve is my inability to (yet) master a well-swum 200 fly (or any fly race, for that matter...). :dunno: My stroke has improved, but it I am having more difficulties with it than I have ever had with my other strokes. I can swim fly forever (well, at least 2,000 yards non-stop, looking back on past efforts), but not with a stroke with any speed to it. Thanks to my inability to keep my arms close to the surface, I'm diving down with every stroke. On 200 fly, I am nowhere near making a time on the motivational charts! :badday: Elaine, you can swim 2000 yards of fly nonstop????

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knelson — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 12:53:31 GMT

some girls do that on purpose; I've seen them in the locker room hiking their suits up before going out to practice. Times have changed... They want to avoid pancake ass.

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imbacktoit — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 11:00:58 GMT

some girls do that on purpose; I've seen them in the locker room hiking their suits up before going out to practice. Times have changed...

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Elaine Krugman — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 10:08:48 GMT

Elaine, you can swim 2000 yards of fly nonstop???? Well, honestly, I don't know if I could do it now, because I haven't tried lately; but I did it in 2012. You can see it on the Butternuts site: www.grinswim.org/.../butternuts.html . (Scroll down to Elaine Krugman in the listings.) The swim was very slow-- about 45 minutes! :cane: The most difficult part of the swim was the first few hundred yards. Once I got past that distance, I felt like I could have kept on going even after 2,000 yards. By then, however, my camera battery had died, the digital card was full, and my husband was ready to kill me for fear I would sustain an overuse injury. :afraid:

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jpetyk — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 09:07:22 GMT

My pet peeve...butt crack. Pull the flipping suit out of your @$$ already.:bitching: That can't be comfortable, and saying anything to the teen girls could be misconstrued. Where are their parents? And guys, no one likes the plumber crack look either. Let's leave something to the imagination, no?

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Former Member — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 15:57:44 GMT

Don't worry, Elaine mine is with backstroke to make the turns-flipped turns.

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Former Member — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 14:59:18 GMT

My pet peeve is the smugness of complaints people put on this thread.

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__steve__ — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:31:36 GMT

Making the same costly mistakes in the 50, then questioning whether it's actually due to slowness by not being able to prove yourself otherwise with a lucky swim.

RE: What is your pet peeve about swimming?

Elaine Krugman — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 10:30:01 GMT

But, that does remind me of a pet peeve - why more people don't realize the sublime beauty of a well-swum and well-enjoyed 200 fly? :bliss:Well said, pwb, well said! :applaud: My pet peeve is my inability to (yet) master a well-swum 200 fly (or any fly race, for that matter...). :dunno: My stroke has improved, but it I am having more difficulties with it than I have ever had with my other strokes. I can swim fly forever (well, at least 2,000 yards non-stop, looking back on past efforts), but not with a stroke with any speed to it. Thanks to my inability to keep my arms close to the surface, I'm diving down with every stroke. On 200 fly, I am nowhere near making a time on the motivational charts! :badday:

RE: What is your pet peeve about swimming?

Patrick W. Brundage — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 09:56:55 GMT

Making the same costly mistakes in the 50, then questioning whether it's actually due to slowness by not being able to prove yourself otherwise with a lucky swim.The 50 free is the world's most unforgiving race. Not the hardest; but the one with no room for error and, in my experience, the one race (save one time in 2009) I can never swim well. But, that does remind me of a pet peeve - why more people don't realize the sublime beauty of a well-swum and well-enjoyed 200 fly?

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Former Member — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 13:35:35 GMT

4. Seeing bandaids in or around the pool area This. So much this.

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sunruh — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 09:35:23 GMT

Pet peeve: I train as hard as I think I can, but I still get whooped by some certain Texans ... Flip side of the pet peeve (why I love swimming): No matter who beats who in the race, we still laugh and commiserate in the cool-down pool and remain friends before competitors the opposite of a pet peeve.... i have met swimmers for the 1st time as a masters that i race (on paper) 40 years ago. such great times chatting with them now.

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Bobinator — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 08:30:52 GMT

We are so blessed in central Indiana to have a ton of indoor, 50 meter natatoriums in many of our high schools! Most of these pools are 10 years or less old. My gripe is the lack of maintenance in the shower rooms. Believe it or not, most of the showers in most of these pool locker rooms barely work. I usually attend the 5 a.m. workouts and have to prepare myself for my day of work each morning in these locker rooms. It disgusts me that these lovely facilities are totally ignoring their showers and locker room cleanliness. I have recently started carrying a bottle of Lime Away in my swim bag. I'm going to squirt the shower heads each morning with an attempt to de-lime them enough to work. If this doesn't do the trick I plan to purchase a couple shower heads and stay late on a Saturday to secretly install them. Other than this I have no complaints. Swimming is the activity that washes my negative away and keeps me in the path of happiness!! :)

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orca1946 — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 07:00:06 GMT

The swimmer that wears a big watch in practice and hits me and others with it cuz they swim straight arm out to the side. We have a deck clock for this purpose!! Leave it in the locker or bag, would ya!!!

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Patrick W. Brundage — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 05:16:09 GMT

the opposite of a pet peeve.... i have met swimmers for the 1st time as a masters that i race (on paper) 40 years ago. such great times chatting with them now.Agreed. Similar to that - also on the positive side - I dropped into a Masters workout last month in California and ran into a guy I raced as an age grouper back in Virginia. He was a cross-state rival back then and we didn't know each other that well then, but are now getting to know each other as adults. very cool.

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Elaine Krugman — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 02:17:55 GMT

Pet peeve: I train as hard as I think I can, but I still get whooped by some certain Texans ... Flip side of the pet peeve (why I love swimming): No matter who beats who in the race, we still laugh and commiserate in the cool-down pool and remain friends before competitors :bighug: for the first one; however, I'm sure that made Steve :D! The flip side is what Masters is all about, and why I love the competition at this level. :bliss:What a great post, pwb! :agree:

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Former Member — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 15:13:29 GMT

1) practice is always 2hrs before i want to get up - but i do anyway 2) i train way harder than i want to, to go slower than i want to 3) why does swimming take 2x or 3x or 5x the training that any other sport does? 4) how many other sports have you shave your body for the top competition? 5) for 20 years i promised i would not be insane and get up at 5am to train my rear off...yet for 8 years now...im back at it! clearly swimming causes insantiy or at least re-occuring insantiy 6) masters swimming has caused me to look at a Large pizza and go...dinner for 1 it was way worse when i was younger my eating doesnt turn off if i take a day off from swimming 7) by taste i can tell the ph level of pool water and what chemicals are too much and in need of...talk about insane! 8) 77 is too cold, 81 is too hot...a 3 degree range seems way too picky, but too cold and i cramp and too warm and i melt 9) $300 for a jammer is ok, but $9 for goggles? no way! 10) $100 for entries is high, but $800 for airfare to the meet, sure Not much body hair left except for the chin since I 59 year old woman even as a kid when all the girls shaved their legs I didn't because mother said you would end up shaving your legs everyday.

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ssumargo — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 11:16:51 GMT

1. The lap pool is taken up by "aqua walkers" while the leisure pool has available lanes 2. Leisure pool is too warm 3. When I am sharing a lane with someone with paddles and I end up getting spanked 4. Seeing bandaids in or around the pool area

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Patrick W. Brundage — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 09:40:44 GMT

2) i train way harder than i want to, to go slower than i want to Pet peeve: I train as hard as I think I can, but I still get whooped by some certain Texans ... Flip side of the pet peeve (why I love swimming): No matter who beats who in the race, we still laugh and commiserate in the cool-down pool and remain friends before competitors

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sunruh — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 04:54:37 GMT

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Former Member — Sun, 02 Oct 2016 16:29:45 GMT

I feel incredibly lucky after reading a lot of these responses. I go to a Lifetime fitness and we have a lot of lanes so there is usually a free one. So my peeves are: 1. I cannot figure out freestyle and it makes me feel incompetent and embarrassed when I try. 2. Chlorine kills my hair and skin and my hair just always seems dirty and my skin is always itchy and rashy. Seriously I am just so freaking over chlorine. 3. Days when I can't swim because life or my shoulder hurts or whatever. I just want to spend a twelfth of my life in the pool and never miss a day; that is not so much to ask!

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Former Member — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 08:39:13 GMT

1. The ridiculous girl who hangs at the end of the lane on the far side (50m pool) with her legs spread to max distance apart so you can't do a flip turn without coming close to breaking one of her limbs. 2. When waiting on slower swimmers ahead of me at the wall so I won't be on their butt in no time (open lap swimming at my German pool), and some douchebag dives in and starts swimming in the gap. 3. The idiot who thinks swimming circles means swimming right up the middle while the rest of us stay right. That gets fixed fast. 4. Seeing so many swimming with no hip roll and poor form - their bodies must really ache after swimming. 5. People gathering at the end of the lane oblivious to anyone else coming in, leaving no space for you to make a turn. Hello people, we're sharing space here!

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Former Member — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 08:28:50 GMT

Oh, oh, here's a good one! What about Scuba Divers?? Anyone know what I'm talking about? They come in, in their neoprene wetsuits, HUGE masks, ...that's right, MASKS, (I hardly call 'em goggles if they're HUGE) and snorkels... "...Ooh, we're snorkeling... IN A POOL!" Who does that?! I'd understand if it were at a reef where colorful fish dwell... But a Pool?!! *Speaks in Jacques Gusteau Accent* "Ah yes, wee see ze raire femaile swimmaire in hair beautiful black, red and orange Speedo, swimming ze majestic breaststroke.... Du not get too close, or she'll see you and zen slap you." GIMMIE A BREAK!!! Snorkeling is for tourists who want to see fish in reefs, not female swimmers in skin tight Speedo's! Oy! ! This one always baffles me

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Former Member — Sun, 08 May 2016 16:56:13 GMT

Definitely being interrupted while in my zone. GRRRRrrrr!