Swim Rant

Geeezzz What a bunch of whiney prima donna’s. You guys sound worse than my 2 year old. My lane…MY lane MY LANE! News flash your $3 does not entitle you to “ownership” of 1/8 of a public pool. What part of public don’t you understand? If sharing is so repugnant to you then rent the whole facility or better yet go build your own pool. Then you can have the whole place to yourself. Some of you actually are looking to intentionally hurt others? Man, that’s not only childish it’s criminal. If there people swimming in the pool who are not following pool rules, then ask the pool management staff to enforce their rules. And let me get this straight, this is Masters Swimming, where the first objective is to encourage and promote improved physical fitness and health in adults. Many adults engage in water aerobics to improve their physical fitness and health. So is the objective to only encourage these people as long as they stay away from YOUR pool? And heaven forbid swim lessons occur in YOUR pool, this could only serve to encourage more people to take up swimming as a life style choice and encroach on YOUR lane. One more new flash… fast is relative. If you swim your 50 in under 20 seconds you are fast. Anything over that and there is a group of swimmers out there who would be able to call you slow. If you are having problems with other swimmers in a public pool, try communications or get the pool management involved. But at the very least could you try to act like adults? Noodler: You're way off base! I share my lap lanes gladly with all. I never discourage anyone, even noodlers, from swimming with me. I've had almost no problems swimming in lap lanes before this summer. I'm used to lanes being closed for swimming lessons as well. I only ask that people follow the rules. Kids shouldn't steal my stuff. I should have backstroke flags. Adults swim in designated adult lap lanes. As for your contention that masters swimming is only to promote health, that's your opinion. If all I wanted to do is get healthy and swim laps, I'd go back to my LSD running. I like the competition aspect of masters swimming, so :thhbbb:. To each his own. I do a lot of things to be healthy besides swimming. As for fast, very few people in the world go under :20 for a 50 free. I think many of us are fast even though we don't meet that artificial benchmark for elite younger swimmers. :cheerleader::thhbbb:

Geeezzz What a bunch of whiney prima donna’s. You guys sound worse than my 2 year old. My lane…MY lane MY LANE! News flash your $3 does not entitle you to “ownership” of 1/8 of a public pool. What part of public don’t you understand? If sharing is so repugnant to you then rent the whole facility or better yet go build your own pool. Then you can have the whole place to yourself. Some of you actually are looking to intentionally hurt others? Man, that’s not only childish it’s criminal. If there people swimming in the pool who are not following pool rules, then ask the pool management staff to enforce their rules. And let me get this straight, this is Masters Swimming, where the first objective is to encourage and promote improved physical fitness and health in adults. Many adults engage in water aerobics to improve their physical fitness and health. So is the objective to only encourage these people as long as they stay away from YOUR pool? And heaven forbid swim lessons occur in YOUR pool, this could only serve to encourage more people to take up swimming as a life style choice and encroach on YOUR lane. One more new flash… fast is relative. If you swim your 50 in under 20 seconds you are fast. Anything over that and there is a group of swimmers out there who would be able to call you slow. If you are having problems with other swimmers in a public pool, try communications or get the pool management involved. But at the very least could you try to act like adults? Noodler: You're way off base! I share my lap lanes gladly with all. I never discourage anyone, even noodlers, from swimming with me. I've had almost no problems swimming in lap lanes before this summer. I'm used to lanes being closed for swimming lessons as well. I only ask that people follow the rules. Kids shouldn't steal my stuff. I should have backstroke flags. Adults swim in designated adult lap lanes. As for your contention that masters swimming is only to promote health, that's your opinion. If all I wanted to do is get healthy and swim laps, I'd go back to my LSD running. I like the competition aspect of masters swimming, so :thhbbb:. To each his own. I do a lot of things to be healthy besides swimming. As for fast, very few people in the world go under :20 for a 50 free. I think many of us are fast even though we don't meet that artificial benchmark for elite younger swimmers. :cheerleader::thhbbb: