During your personal workouts in the pool…do you swim from the shallow end or the deep end? I was thinking about this earlier today while working my lifeguarding shift. Just about every pool I’ve ever swam in…people generally swim from the shallow end. Yet in meets, obviously every event starts and finishes in the deep end (with the exception of 25y/m races in a short course pool, and 50m races in a long course pool). It’s kind of understandable since you can stand in the shallow end. But today while I’m watching swimmers come and go…just like 99.99% of the rest of the time…everyone got in and swam from the shallow end. But then a couple came in and went to the deep end and swam their workout from there. It was just out of the ordinary. I’ve never swam on a team myself…but when my daughter swan in h.s. I remember that the team practices were always from the shallow end. Just seems a little kooky. I was always a track runner in h.s. This would be akin to starting workouts on the far side of the track opposite of the common start/finish line.
Dan
