First of all, I'm a new "masters" browser here and I enjoy reading all your humorous and informative posts. I recently started swimming low speed laps by myself and enjoy the nonimpact fitness I'm slowly attaining (started with the near death 1 lap swim, now a 500 free + broken up 200 IM + under water laps).
I'd like to know what kind of conditons other people swim in? Do you consider your pool setup to be good, fair, poor? My pool situation is as follows: I live in a gated community which has a 25 yard L-shaped pool. It's about 1/4mi away from my house. There are 2 lanes with lane lines open at all times to one side of the pool. Pool is about 9 months old with no starting blocks or flags. Rules are no diving allowed, no lifeguard on duty, no shampoo in the outdoor shower (what?). I usually drive my golf cart over to check for open lanes pretty much any time of day from 8am to 8pm. Open lane bliss can usually be found around 6pm each evening. The noodles floating around at this time often get smacked around by big lap waves since I'm rather tall. I've never had to share a lane with another lap swimmer (which is probably a good thing cause I think I would fail play nice with the other lap swimmers). The temperature of our pool is warm. Weather is warm for 9 months and dips to the 50s in winter. Lightning closes our pool daily in summer. An occasional car or lawn mower will blow in to the pool area sometimes making it impossible to swim, but nothing too bad overall. I think I'm fairly if not extremely fortunate to have such a set up as this, although I'm curious what others have to endure or relish at other pools. What are some of the pools like that you swim/train at?
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The pool I practice in is part of a Tennis Club where many other Sports are included, as Swimming, basket ball, soccer, voley ball, weight lifting, tai-chi, karate, spinning, etc.
This Club is about 5 minutes away from my home, so I practice in the morning from 6 to 7 AM before going to work, and I usually have a line for myself. The Club has 5 different facilities and four of them are within 10 minutes from my house although you can only enter the one you are member of. We pay about 250 USD per month for a family membership.
We have an outdoor Olympic pool (50 meters long) with an L shape; in the bottom of the "L", the pool has 25 meters wide, the rest of the pool has 25 yards wide.
40 % of the time the pool is set as a 50 meter long line pool (with 4 or 5 out of 8 possible lines for lap swimmers) and the other 60 % of the time it is set as a 25 meters lap pool (6 lines for lap swimmers the rest is free for non-lap swimmers). The pool goes from 3 1/2 feet deep to 10 feet
The water temperature is around 81 degrees most of the times and they keep it preatty clean.
Last week I was the first one to get in the pool, even before our coach arrived, and after two minutes of warming up it started to rain, it was beautifull as it was still dark and the rain drops looked great from down the water with the light of the pool and as I stopped to watch, there was not other movement as being the only one there.
Alex
:p
The pool I practice in is part of a Tennis Club where many other Sports are included, as Swimming, basket ball, soccer, voley ball, weight lifting, tai-chi, karate, spinning, etc.
This Club is about 5 minutes away from my home, so I practice in the morning from 6 to 7 AM before going to work, and I usually have a line for myself. The Club has 5 different facilities and four of them are within 10 minutes from my house although you can only enter the one you are member of. We pay about 250 USD per month for a family membership.
We have an outdoor Olympic pool (50 meters long) with an L shape; in the bottom of the "L", the pool has 25 meters wide, the rest of the pool has 25 yards wide.
40 % of the time the pool is set as a 50 meter long line pool (with 4 or 5 out of 8 possible lines for lap swimmers) and the other 60 % of the time it is set as a 25 meters lap pool (6 lines for lap swimmers the rest is free for non-lap swimmers). The pool goes from 3 1/2 feet deep to 10 feet
The water temperature is around 81 degrees most of the times and they keep it preatty clean.
Last week I was the first one to get in the pool, even before our coach arrived, and after two minutes of warming up it started to rain, it was beautifull as it was still dark and the rain drops looked great from down the water with the light of the pool and as I stopped to watch, there was not other movement as being the only one there.
Alex
:p
