Hi everyone...okay, for my first post I have an etiquette question...I just joined a Master's team a month ago, so I'm pretty new to all of this.
My question is about passing people during practice. I know that theoretically, the standard procedure is to tap the person's feet to let them know you want to pass, and then they're supposed to stop and "pull over" at the next wall to let you get ahead. But do any of you actually do this a lot during practice? Do the people you pass let you do so without a problem, or do they get mad?
Maybe this doesn't sound like a big deal at all and it seems silly that I'm concerned, but I haven't seen anyone even attempt to pass someone else during our practices, and so I'm afraid it would be rude. Plus, some people I swim with seem like they'd get offended, since they're pretty competitive. But last night, I was getting kind of frustrated because I was swimming behind someone who was slower than me, and I felt like I could go so much faster...is the appropriate thing to do to just suck it up and enjoy the "break", or attempt to pass?
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An interesting story from today's morning practice on my Uni team.....
So I swim in a lane with this one girl on my team. She's new to competitive swimming and really hasn't mastered interval swimming...or exactly what a set is.
I feel sometimes sad for her because we'll do a set of say... 3 x 25 on some interval...and she'll hit the wall after the first 25 and not check the clock and just keep going...as thought it were a 75. I try to explain it to her...but it doesn't seem to work.....
Anyway.
Sometimes our lane has 3 or 4 people in it. When it does, we naturally circle swim. Other times (depending on the amount of people at practice, the workout and intervals...) we're the only two in the lane. This morning was one of those such times. During these times we either circle swim or split the lane...whatever we feel like. But usually we pick one and just stick to it.
So this morning we had kind of decided on splitting the lane. Anyway, during one set I was at one of the walls and she was comming in on a pull set getting ready to turn around. She was in my side of the lane. I paused her at the wall and asked her if we were circling or splitting...she didn't seem to be sure...so I said...okay how about we split the lane. You take your normal side I'll take mine. So she says okay I'll stay over here and goes to that side.
Fine.
She goes off and since I'm on an interval I don't think much about it. My time to leave comes up and I start swimming ...I'm not looking forward... and then all of a sudden in the middle of the pool *CRASH!* She ran smack dab into me.
I acted like it didn't bother me, but really I was a little pissed.
I mean come on.
She nearly hit me once and we had a discussion to sort out the lane settings...she agreed...and THEN she did hit me. I mean come on.............
An interesting story from today's morning practice on my Uni team.....
So I swim in a lane with this one girl on my team. She's new to competitive swimming and really hasn't mastered interval swimming...or exactly what a set is.
I feel sometimes sad for her because we'll do a set of say... 3 x 25 on some interval...and she'll hit the wall after the first 25 and not check the clock and just keep going...as thought it were a 75. I try to explain it to her...but it doesn't seem to work.....
Anyway.
Sometimes our lane has 3 or 4 people in it. When it does, we naturally circle swim. Other times (depending on the amount of people at practice, the workout and intervals...) we're the only two in the lane. This morning was one of those such times. During these times we either circle swim or split the lane...whatever we feel like. But usually we pick one and just stick to it.
So this morning we had kind of decided on splitting the lane. Anyway, during one set I was at one of the walls and she was comming in on a pull set getting ready to turn around. She was in my side of the lane. I paused her at the wall and asked her if we were circling or splitting...she didn't seem to be sure...so I said...okay how about we split the lane. You take your normal side I'll take mine. So she says okay I'll stay over here and goes to that side.
Fine.
She goes off and since I'm on an interval I don't think much about it. My time to leave comes up and I start swimming ...I'm not looking forward... and then all of a sudden in the middle of the pool *CRASH!* She ran smack dab into me.
I acted like it didn't bother me, but really I was a little pissed.
I mean come on.
She nearly hit me once and we had a discussion to sort out the lane settings...she agreed...and THEN she did hit me. I mean come on.............
