Swim Rant

Folks who take up a full lane which is dedicated for circle swimming and start a set of walking in place with a hip-float. :frustrated: After swimming laps at the local Y for years, I wholeheartedly AGREE with this one..... The Water Walkers are the WORST. They think they should have the whole lane for one person taking up a few feet in the deepend, but that their hair (much less their face) should NEVER GET WET! Don't even think of doing a flip turn near them! They'll report you to the Y Directors! This pool is only 4 lanes to begin with! There was one in the later pages in this thread on the guards clearing the pool from high chlorine..... That might not have been a joke That has happened more than once at our local Y. :shakeshead: It generally means they dumped a "toxic" amount of chlorine into the water and are actually scared they are going to harm you (Strip Skin, dissolve hair etc.) ! But then this would have to be a huge amount at our Y, over and above what they normally ran the chlorine at. (see "booger-eating hillbillies"-as one of my old bosses used to say) The Aquatics Director there believes that the chlorine should be at >3+++, to keep down the germs in the pool with all the kids. So (as all of us chemists know) More HAS to be better! The chlorine test sample is a bright neon yellow, way off the scale of the tester! So the pool EATS suits in 't green--too much bleach to even keep that color! Unfortunately the local health dept. does not have an upper limit on the chlorine concentration for a guideline. This is the same pool and aquatics director who decided to remove all the competitive lane lines and put in ropes with float buoys as brand new lane markers-how proud they were of that (think shallow depth markers). The wire broke in one lane line and it would be too expensive:rolleyes: to replace. So all the real lane lines were taken out. It was too much of a hassle for the guards to take them in and out for the noodler classes and swim lessons and the aquatics director was worried one of the guards would get hurt with the heavy bulky lines. Forget the function of those wave breaking lines! So now It's like wake jumping in there on some mornings, esp from the water walkers and floaters of substantial mass bobbing up and down. :applaud: They actually create more wake than a streamlined swimmer ever could. The old guys in the morning who take up 2+ lanes playing water basketball (the Y has one setup in the shallow for the kids and it never gets taken down). The only amusement comes from the geezers, having finished their "workout" (of standing around and b%^*@ng, then become the geezer hotshot basketballers who "accidentally" splash one of the walrus walkers with their ball and misplaced shot and proceed to set off a screaming match :rofl: that the Youngster lifeguard has to try to diffuse (and she was the only guard desperate enough for money to be up and in at

Folks who take up a full lane which is dedicated for circle swimming and start a set of walking in place with a hip-float. :frustrated: After swimming laps at the local Y for years, I wholeheartedly AGREE with this one..... The Water Walkers are the WORST. They think they should have the whole lane for one person taking up a few feet in the deepend, but that their hair (much less their face) should NEVER GET WET! Don't even think of doing a flip turn near them! They'll report you to the Y Directors! This pool is only 4 lanes to begin with! There was one in the later pages in this thread on the guards clearing the pool from high chlorine..... That might not have been a joke That has happened more than once at our local Y. :shakeshead: It generally means they dumped a "toxic" amount of chlorine into the water and are actually scared they are going to harm you (Strip Skin, dissolve hair etc.) ! But then this would have to be a huge amount at our Y, over and above what they normally ran the chlorine at. (see "booger-eating hillbillies"-as one of my old bosses used to say) The Aquatics Director there believes that the chlorine should be at >3+++, to keep down the germs in the pool with all the kids. So (as all of us chemists know) More HAS to be better! The chlorine test sample is a bright neon yellow, way off the scale of the tester! So the pool EATS suits in 't green--too much bleach to even keep that color! Unfortunately the local health dept. does not have an upper limit on the chlorine concentration for a guideline. This is the same pool and aquatics director who decided to remove all the competitive lane lines and put in ropes with float buoys as brand new lane markers-how proud they were of that (think shallow depth markers). The wire broke in one lane line and it would be too expensive:rolleyes: to replace. So all the real lane lines were taken out. It was too much of a hassle for the guards to take them in and out for the noodler classes and swim lessons and the aquatics director was worried one of the guards would get hurt with the heavy bulky lines. Forget the function of those wave breaking lines! So now It's like wake jumping in there on some mornings, esp from the water walkers and floaters of substantial mass bobbing up and down. :applaud: They actually create more wake than a streamlined swimmer ever could. The old guys in the morning who take up 2+ lanes playing water basketball (the Y has one setup in the shallow for the kids and it never gets taken down). The only amusement comes from the geezers, having finished their "workout" (of standing around and b%^*@ng, then become the geezer hotshot basketballers who "accidentally" splash one of the walrus walkers with their ball and misplaced shot and proceed to set off a screaming match :rofl: that the Youngster lifeguard has to try to diffuse (and she was the only guard desperate enough for money to be up and in at