Swim Rant

When you're splitting the lane with someone and both of you are swimming freestyle and keeping a pretty swift clip compared to the rest of the pool and someone jumps in to circle with you and starts swimming a leisurely breaststroke. The guy who is wearing a 200 dollar technical jammer to sit in the jacuzzi. I even asked him, "I see you in a techsuit, but I've never seen you do laps" and he said he doesn't swim at all, he just uses the weight room and bought the suit for the jacuzzi. Seriously, who does that? The guy one lane over who sits on the wall for five minutes then watches for when I come into a turn so that he can push off and race me for a 25 or a 50 in the middle of a 500 or at the end of a workout when I'm clearly trying to swim down. When you're circling and the guy in front is going too slow, so you try and cut over to get in front of him and he speeds up to block you. Splitting an end lane and getting stuck with the side closest to the wall. I am 6'0 with a 6'6 wingspan. I can't tell you how many times I've jammed fingers hitting the ladder railing on freestyle recovery or fly, or scraped my fingers on backstroke. If you're just going to swim breaststroke or kick, please let me have the other side of the lane! Gutters that are not flush. Have you ever cracked your heels on a backstroke turn hitting a gutter lip? Not fun. The old man who thinks he is entitled to his own lane and will try and do some sort of horrible butterfly stroke when people try to get in the lane.

When you're splitting the lane with someone and both of you are swimming freestyle and keeping a pretty swift clip compared to the rest of the pool and someone jumps in to circle with you and starts swimming a leisurely breaststroke. The guy who is wearing a 200 dollar technical jammer to sit in the jacuzzi. I even asked him, "I see you in a techsuit, but I've never seen you do laps" and he said he doesn't swim at all, he just uses the weight room and bought the suit for the jacuzzi. Seriously, who does that? The guy one lane over who sits on the wall for five minutes then watches for when I come into a turn so that he can push off and race me for a 25 or a 50 in the middle of a 500 or at the end of a workout when I'm clearly trying to swim down. When you're circling and the guy in front is going too slow, so you try and cut over to get in front of him and he speeds up to block you. Splitting an end lane and getting stuck with the side closest to the wall. I am 6'0 with a 6'6 wingspan. I can't tell you how many times I've jammed fingers hitting the ladder railing on freestyle recovery or fly, or scraped my fingers on backstroke. If you're just going to swim breaststroke or kick, please let me have the other side of the lane! Gutters that are not flush. Have you ever cracked your heels on a backstroke turn hitting a gutter lip? Not fun. The old man who thinks he is entitled to his own lane and will try and do some sort of horrible butterfly stroke when people try to get in the lane.