Swim Rant

Swim suit hickeys! The kind you get from wearing the wide-strapped suit on 4x1000 freestyle day... then takes forever for it to go away...

Originally posted by Peter Cruise Kirk- if lane lines are too loose just get everyone in your land to do butterfly or breastroke- that will whip the rope back into the path of the next lane. I'll hand tighten the ropes or ask the guard for pliers or a wrench. Usually a few clicks by hand tightening does the trick. If they don't tighten enough and there are no available tools to help, swim close to the lane rope to get it back over. ...... Back to the thread. We've actually had to get out because the chlorine was "too high". I think the guards pulled a fast one when they used this one :)

a pool with no lane ropes or lane lines a pool where you're the only one swimming laps and everyone stares at you getting overtaken by someone who first hits you in head around the ear and then kicks you just below the lip on your chin, and then that same person subsequently acting as if nothing happened!!

Based upon past threads like these, we're about due for someone new to the forums to denounce us all for being hateful, intolerant people and promise to never darken our door again.

Pet Peeves...is this like confession? Having the aquatic director send everyone to talk to me about the Master Swim Team while I am trying to get a workout in... Band aids, hair elastics, drawstrings, barrettes etc in the lane - I have to do a clean up lap to start... Aquacise instructors that encourage the class to make extra waves for the lap swimmers...and trust me this group can generate waves...jokes on them I pretend I am open water swimming. Aqua classes that end late at night and the guards take their sweet time to put in the lanes Swim instructors who use the lap lane times to offer private kiddie swim lessons...we have discovered a few laps of butterfly sends them to the other pool. Lousy Coaches who dismiss you because you didnt swim competitively as a fetus... Wonderful coaches who inspire you but who move away for a better job ....:(

no backstroke flags is annoying discovering there are no backstroke flags by crashing into the wall at full spend is painful there's also touching the wall so hard you sprain or break a finger like when neil walker broke his finger on the wall at the 1997 NCAA's when he was blazing fast trying to keep count on longer swims, anything above a 250 another rant is when you're swimming second in your lane enjoying a great draft on the swimmer who's leading, then you catch them, tap their toes and now they insist you now lead the lane, which causes you to lose the draft you were enjoying and now the work begins also my fellow ranters please feel free to provide solutions to each of your RANTS ande Originally posted by Rowdy No backstroke flags in the 50m outdoor pool we swim in for the summer. Switching back and forth between short course and long course all summer. Those early morning practices seem to have an extra level of difficulty some times: 800 warm up. Is that 16 or 32 today?:confused:

Kirk- if lane lines are too loose just get everyone in your land to do butterfly or breastroke- that will whip the rope back into the path of the next lane.

true, should I delete it? though it might be an excellent opportunity to write more funny stuff ande Originally posted by Sabretooth Tiger Ah, but then you move the premise from a cathartic *** session to constructive problem solving . . . a sure way to kill a discussion. :D

No backstroke flags in the 50m outdoor pool we swim in for the summer. Switching back and forth between short course and long course all summer. Those early morning practices seem to have an extra level of difficulty some times: 800 warm up. Is that 16 or 32 today?:confused:

I hate it when I breathe water or swallow water while I'm training, today I pushed off the wall and breathed at just the right instant for a wave to crash in my mouth, I almost choked, but swallowed instead not a fan ande