So I've been waiting and waiting and waiting for the new rec center up the road to open. I've been thinking how cool it will be... walk a mile and a half to the pool, work out, walk a mile and a half back... think of all of the calories burned! Think of the workout to be had!
Didn't really think they'd rip me off on the pool.
When they said "warm water fitness pool," I thought "25x25 pool warm enough to keep the blue hairs happy." I did not think "warm puddle just big enough to wave around your pool noodle." After all, all of the high schools in the area have swim teams and they use the rec center pools for practice. It would only seem logical to have a pool of an appropriate size to use for that purpose. Um, no.
What we have is a warm puddle (which I didn't even bother getting into) then we have a kiddie pool with all of the accompanying stuff to climb on, and then we have this "current area" (that's what they call it) which is sort of like a thin lap lane that winds around and through the kiddie area, and has a current to it, to add to your workout when you're walking around with your pool noodle.
Of course, sticking the "current" area in the middle of kiddie land makes absolutely no sense, being that the blue haired ladies don't like to get their hair wet... and being in the kiddie area ensures that you're going to get wet!
I was pondering the merits of trying to swim against the current, but it's not really a wide enough channel to pull that off. Not to mention that I'd probably get whacked with a noodle if I tried that.
Oh well, I guess I'll just go back to the old pool. At least it's quiet and generally noodle-free.
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Former Member
I was there from the begining when planning for our new indoor pool began. Well no, it wasn't planning the plans were shoved in front of us. A large water park with a 4 lane 25 meter lap pool attached. A group of us, lap swimmers, parents with High School swimmers and USA swimmers said please, please add two more lane and make it competative. So they did, they through in a two lane lap pool on the other side of the water park. Their thought process was that to put the six lanes togather would invite teams from other communities to use the pool, and that the volume of water would be too costly to maintain. ( Obviously the volume of water wouldn't change but that was their reasoning ). Our contention was that the High School pool is 40 years old and wiil need to be remodeled sometime ( The USA and High School teams use it now ) and that when a levy is asked for to redo the pool the voters aren't going to be very likly to suopport two pools.
Also that if the new pool dosen't pull it's own weight letting outside teams use it in the future could offset maintenance costs.We past around a petition, went to the Mayor and Council and everyone agreedn But they past it anyway. So we're stuck with it for the next 40 years. I gotta go swim !
I was there from the begining when planning for our new indoor pool began. Well no, it wasn't planning the plans were shoved in front of us. A large water park with a 4 lane 25 meter lap pool attached. A group of us, lap swimmers, parents with High School swimmers and USA swimmers said please, please add two more lane and make it competative. So they did, they through in a two lane lap pool on the other side of the water park. Their thought process was that to put the six lanes togather would invite teams from other communities to use the pool, and that the volume of water would be too costly to maintain. ( Obviously the volume of water wouldn't change but that was their reasoning ). Our contention was that the High School pool is 40 years old and wiil need to be remodeled sometime ( The USA and High School teams use it now ) and that when a levy is asked for to redo the pool the voters aren't going to be very likly to suopport two pools.
Also that if the new pool dosen't pull it's own weight letting outside teams use it in the future could offset maintenance costs.We past around a petition, went to the Mayor and Council and everyone agreedn But they past it anyway. So we're stuck with it for the next 40 years. I gotta go swim !
