Swim Rant

...3. Sing "Its a small world after all" during their warm up... thinking about the usual participants in aqua aerobics...is anyone else highly amused by the irony of this???

Mausy - Don't get me wrong. Steiner Masters in general is a great group and I have many friends there. It just interests me that you had this problem at one of there workouts and it isn't unusual. In a rant sort of way, I really dislike teams that have a hard time accomidating new people and accepting them into their own lane and team habits. Maybe that is how you keep a team from getting too big when you can't get anymore lanes??

Why no 1500m free in the Masters World Championships? Some of us slow twitch types don't like moving down to sprint events (like the 800)!

If I'd only known it was you... c'mon, ya gotta not be so shy! :D Of course, I wouldn't have picked him out as you b/c he wasn't nearly as good looking as the pix of you. You don't by chance travel in disguise do you, the better to fend off all those eager ladies? ;) Have you seen Richie's newest avatar? LOL!

I have not read all of these so let me slide if I duplicate a couple. Stray noodle floating into your lane. At my club during the day there is only one lane to lap swim in and it for some reason collects all the abandoned noodles. The people who stand next to the lap lane and want me to keep from splashing their hair as I swim by or do a flip turn. Why go to a pool to stay dry. As a life guard I had a group of, well, thugs, that I would get to go splash and generally soak anyone I saw who was trying to keep their hair dry. Keep in mind this was the late 80's and big hair ruled. This has been mentioned before but people who don't swim srtaight or stay on thier side of the lane drive me nuts. Got Boost

Have you seen Richie's newest avatar? LOL! Yeah, now that one DOES look like the guy I saw on the train!:p

Rich,she asked if you minded ,you did and told her so,end of discussion. It was your lane,if she wanted to swim with someone else she should have found her own lane. My rant is (generally really slow)people who think it's OK to cross my lane to get to the ladder 2 lanes away.They generally cross right before I want to leave on my interval.Even worse are the ones who think they can cross in front of me as I am swimming in for a turn or a finish. I always have to slow down to avoid hitting them,throwing my time way off.

Tell me that it's not me... I'm swimming, a girl comes up to the lane. Not wearing a real race suit or training gear. "Hi, I'm going to swim this side!" she tells me. I said "OK" a bit taken aback with the lack of asking and using please and thank you, but at least she didn't just jump in as I was heading for the turn. I do a 75 and take a rest, and she interrupts me with this... "Hi, do you mind doing me a really big favour; can you go swim in that lane?" She points to a lane two over where there is guy already swimming. Basically she wanted me to move so she could swim with her mother or friend. I Said, "Yeah I do mind actually!" and pushed off for my next 75. I thought it was the height of rudeness and arrogance to a think she can get me to move. A) I was doing interval work, and b) I was almost done (she'd not know that ). There was no way I was going to stop climb out walk over, wait to get this guy's attention and then start swimming again for 400 yards. Was I selfish, or justified in my response?

To us, you were more than justified. To her, you seemed like a jerk. She'll get over it. And if she doesn't, :dunno:. She probably had no clue what an imposition her request was.

I want to rant about the aqua aerobics people.. 1. although they have two lanes (made into one big one) they all stand along the lane line between them and I, and look mad when they get splashed when I swim by.. 2. Request and are granted that the pool temp be put to 86 degrees because they are cold. 3. Sing "Its a small world after all" during their warm up... Ever tried to swim hard with "its a small world after all" going thru your head? (Just looked at me with a blank face when I asked the instuructor if she knew any Led Zepplin.) I actually now go at 6am instead of 7, just to miss them. O.M.G. Do you goto my pool? Just kidding. Those aerobics people drive me insane sometimes. Once they were playing with their beach vollyball and they knocked it into my lane. Well, the woman came into my lane to get it and took her sweet time getting out. Fine, it was an accident. Not 10 minutes later they hit the damn ball into my lane again, this time hitting me in the head. So I stopped, took their ball and hit it across the pool. Swimming at my Y is like swimming in a hottub they keep it so warm.