The community I live in has 2 High School pools that are closed about 90 percent of the time do to the differences of opinion between the 2 "Pool Directors". There are no public swim times and our Masters Team has not been able to get pool time in over a month. It is really frustrating. Being new to the community I don't really want to make waves but the whole thing just makes me so frustrated. Writing this has actually helped a little.
Has anyone else encountered such an issue? Please share...
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That's awful you guys haven't had any pool time for a month! However, I'm not sure what you should do... sorry that I can't be more of a help.
Are there any other pools in your area that you can go to? If these HS pools are the only ones you can get into... maybe you guys can talk to the pool managers and see if they'll give you some water time if you guys will help out at any of the high school meets... like be timers or whatever... just a thought.
Gull: actually, me. There, I said it. I'm mediocre. I'll never win a USMS Championship (unless, of course, I live to 101 and no one else does, and even then, Tall Paul will still probably beat me up with his substantially larger walker before we get in the pool).
Karen: $2000? Who is your local dealer? They want $18,000+ and I have a copy (a 3 year old copy) of the DVD as proof.
Originally posted by Matt S
There, I said it. I'm mediocre. I'll never win a USMS Championship...
I don't think failing to win a USMS championship means you're mediocre--you're still faster than 99.99% of the population. Personally, I plan to outlast the competition in my age group. It's a war of attrition.
Originally posted by Matt S
P.S. In defense of the aforementioned pool managers who are alleged to not get along, what is the reliability of our information? Are we certain there is not a health, maintenance or unavailability of staffing issue that they have worked diligently to solve with scant appreciation from us the nattering public at large?
Hearing that those are highschool pools, I'm imagining a school board or administration and liability issues or somesuch zero tolerance policy deadlock somewhere along the way.
It would be interesting to see what the holdup really is.
Hey, it's been a while since we had a flaming argument. I'll risk an incredibly arrogant, insensitive, and un-PC comment.
One of the most remarkable aspects of swimming is inverted IQ pyramid. To wit, if you look at the masses of "fitness" swimmers and mediocre competitive swimmers, you will find a stunning percentage of doctors, lawyers, professional money managers, engineers, college professors. A cornucopia of people with advanced degrees and notable professional acheivements. Now let's look at the top, the elite swimmers, coaches and pool managers. SOME (not all) of these people are remarkably shallow, self-centered, unimaginative and insecure BLOCK HEADS who clearly reached their "Peter Principle" point when asked to fill out a lifeguarding schedule. Just astounding.
There, in the style of the unnamed one, I have made the stupidly profound (or profoundly stupid, take your pick) statement of the day. Please feel free to flame away; I painted the bullseye on my own backside.
Matt
P.S. In defense of the aforementioned pool managers who are alleged to not get along, what is the reliability of our information? Are we certain there is not a health, maintenance or unavailability of staffing issue that they have worked diligently to solve with scant appreciation from us the nattering public at large?
Many people think that having something going on in a pool is better than aving nothing going on in it. In many cases that is true. However, in many cases it isn't. This is because of increases in insurance, pay for lifeguards, eletricity and cleaning. We have a wonderful, relatively new high school pool that sits empty at least 90% of the time also. But to have a masters swim team there would cost somuch that we can't afford to use it.
It woudl be nice if the world worked how we think it should work instead of how it can work.
Originally posted by gull80
Weren't the pools built with tax dollars? Seems to me the public should have access to the facilities.
Matt, who you calling mediocre?
Our high school pool was built with our education foundation. they own the pool. the mission sttement of the foundationis to raise money and build facilities to be used for the education and physical training of student atheletes. Recently, there has been a growing trend of having pools built by foundations. sometimes the foundation turns the pool over tot he schools, sometimes rthey don't.
