ok, this is the second time in the past two weeks I've not been able to go swim due to thunderstorm activity.
Now don't get me wrong.. I LOOOOOVE Thunderstorms, but not being able to swim when you've looked forward to doing so since the previous evening is just no fun at all. :mad:
I was literally out the building and on my way to the Y when an clap of thunder abruptly stopped me in my tracks.. I just turned right around and went back into the building. (and onto the discussion boards of course! lol)
Anyone else go to indoor pools that close during storms? In Oklahoma during spring and early summer it sometimes ends up being like a hail mary to decide to go to practice in hopes that there won't be a storm.:rolleyes:
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Good swimming related forum - my local Y freaks whenever lightning is around too. They will close the indoor pool for 45 minutes after a lightning strike. I don't really know about the procedure for successive strikes after that. Some of my swimming excursions have been thwarted on more than one occasion. If it is clouldy and the chance of a storm arises, I call ahead and ask if they are open then take my chances.
One word of advice to anyone who gets let down at an indoor pool because of lightning, especially at a Y; take along some clothes for getting in some dryland work - treadmill, weights, something.
One 5:30 AM workout with my masters team, we got booted out after about 200 yards of warm up. It was 5:35 AM, what to do? Go home and go back to bed or shower and go to work. Got an extra hour and a half of sleep that day.
Lightning scares me, so if they close and that's the policy, so be it. Live another day and make up the missed workout.
Good swimming related forum - my local Y freaks whenever lightning is around too. They will close the indoor pool for 45 minutes after a lightning strike. I don't really know about the procedure for successive strikes after that. Some of my swimming excursions have been thwarted on more than one occasion. If it is clouldy and the chance of a storm arises, I call ahead and ask if they are open then take my chances.
One word of advice to anyone who gets let down at an indoor pool because of lightning, especially at a Y; take along some clothes for getting in some dryland work - treadmill, weights, something.
One 5:30 AM workout with my masters team, we got booted out after about 200 yards of warm up. It was 5:35 AM, what to do? Go home and go back to bed or shower and go to work. Got an extra hour and a half of sleep that day.
Lightning scares me, so if they close and that's the policy, so be it. Live another day and make up the missed workout.
