Swim Rant

in practice, crowded fast swimmer lanes (4 - 5 swimmers per lane) while there are empty slow lanes (1 - 2 per lane) the slow lanes could fit many more swimmers cause they won't catch each other. Our coaches keeps the lanes pretty well balanced. Many times the fast people don't want to move to the 'slower' lanes, even though they aren't slow anymore with fast people in them. We also have an alternate area across a bulkhead that we sometimes use when it is unusually busy, to avoid having 6+ people per lane. In some extreme cases I've asked the coach to move someone who was well faster or slower than the rest of the lane, they've done it without any issues. My rant is a faster person who says, "I'll do stroke so I'll go behind you." When they say that, I assume they will NOT be doing free....but then again, freestyle is a stroke so they're not outright lying by doing it. I also don't like when (again someone obviously faster) dives in on my toes during warmup, especially when I'm the first one in the lane. There's been a few times when I didn't know they were behind me and I switched to *** the next length, to have them nearly run over me. I like having some flexibility to warm at my own pace, and I'll give a good 5-10 sec after someone turns before I dive in.

in practice, crowded fast swimmer lanes (4 - 5 swimmers per lane) while there are empty slow lanes (1 - 2 per lane) the slow lanes could fit many more swimmers cause they won't catch each other. Our coaches keeps the lanes pretty well balanced. Many times the fast people don't want to move to the 'slower' lanes, even though they aren't slow anymore with fast people in them. We also have an alternate area across a bulkhead that we sometimes use when it is unusually busy, to avoid having 6+ people per lane. In some extreme cases I've asked the coach to move someone who was well faster or slower than the rest of the lane, they've done it without any issues. My rant is a faster person who says, "I'll do stroke so I'll go behind you." When they say that, I assume they will NOT be doing free....but then again, freestyle is a stroke so they're not outright lying by doing it. I also don't like when (again someone obviously faster) dives in on my toes during warmup, especially when I'm the first one in the lane. There's been a few times when I didn't know they were behind me and I switched to *** the next length, to have them nearly run over me. I like having some flexibility to warm at my own pace, and I'll give a good 5-10 sec after someone turns before I dive in.