Had my 120 dollar Oakley's in my TYR goggle case stolen from my backpack while I was taking a shower tonight. The pool manager is going to check his camera DVR for the lobby and entryway to see if the crook was dumb enough to walk out with them exposed. God this makes me mad. The only positive thing about this is that I did not catch the guy in the act...I might be in the pokey right about now. You are all probably much wiser than me, since most of you are older( I'm 31) :p, but you've got to keep your stuff locked up ALL the time. Too lazy to earn something themselves so they take it from somebody else...wastes of precious oxygen IMHO.
Sorry for the rant but I just had to vent some frustratrion.
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I'm a big fan of the $1 sunglasses since I lose & abuse them...
I've had better luck keeping my bag 'o stuff on the pool deck in clear view than in the lockerrooms. There's the tote bag of "stuff" (paperwork, keys, etc), separate from clothes and swimwear and all the wet stuff is in a 3rd bag (mesh). Only the clothes bag goes into the lockerrooms. We have some bleacher-style seating on deck, lots of space.
Our lockers are too small to hold those big swimmer backpacks/duffels anyhow, and the swimmers who leave them on the benches in the lockerrooms often find them in a puddle on the floor after they swim.
Cars get pretty darned hot during our Texas summers and I am really reluctant to leave a laptop locked in when I bring my laptop home from work (not enough time to go home first before I swim). I bought some extra windshield reflective screen things to cover the cargo area in the back in hopes that will help.
Once I had a heart rate monitor swiped. I had taken the wristwatch part off and fastened it around the starting blocks (I still had the cheststrap part of the heart rate monitor on me) while I finished my workout in the same lane. Somebody got a "free" $20 wristwatch out of that. Very brazen, and I was pretty mad.
We've had a few iPod thefts recently.
I'm a big fan of the $1 sunglasses since I lose & abuse them...
I've had better luck keeping my bag 'o stuff on the pool deck in clear view than in the lockerrooms. There's the tote bag of "stuff" (paperwork, keys, etc), separate from clothes and swimwear and all the wet stuff is in a 3rd bag (mesh). Only the clothes bag goes into the lockerrooms. We have some bleacher-style seating on deck, lots of space.
Our lockers are too small to hold those big swimmer backpacks/duffels anyhow, and the swimmers who leave them on the benches in the lockerrooms often find them in a puddle on the floor after they swim.
Cars get pretty darned hot during our Texas summers and I am really reluctant to leave a laptop locked in when I bring my laptop home from work (not enough time to go home first before I swim). I bought some extra windshield reflective screen things to cover the cargo area in the back in hopes that will help.
Once I had a heart rate monitor swiped. I had taken the wristwatch part off and fastened it around the starting blocks (I still had the cheststrap part of the heart rate monitor on me) while I finished my workout in the same lane. Somebody got a "free" $20 wristwatch out of that. Very brazen, and I was pretty mad.
We've had a few iPod thefts recently.
