If you're swimming in an outdoor pool -
which do you like better daytime or nighttime swims and why?
Even though I can only practice at night, I love swimming during daylight hours. I love being able to see my shadow on the bottom of the pool while swimming. It's a cool view. Plus there's a chance I'll tan. However those glorious back V tanlines are impossible to get rid of. :shakeshead: Thoughts?
If you're swimming in an outdoor pool -
which do you like better daytime or nighttime swims and why?
Even though I can only practice at night, I love swimming during daylight hours. I love being able to see my shadow on the bottom of the pool while swimming. It's a cool view. Plus there's a chance I'll tan. However those glorious back V tanlines are impossible to get rid of. :shakeshead: Thoughts?
Move to Chicago. I can guarantee that by December your back V tanlines will be but a fond, warm, memory...
Swimmerlisa,
It's not even 75F inside my house right now.
I live across the street from the most fantastic outdoor pool you've ever seen. It's a converted limestone quarry. There's a 50 m pool spanning the SHORT width of it. There's a diving/deep water area with floating piers that is almost 100x100yds big. Of course, you can only really train open water in it because by late June you can't see the lines on the bottom any more (a tad murky) but oh well.
It absolutely breaks my heart every Labor Day when it closes until the following Memorial Day. I used to have an excel program that did an auto-countdown of months, weeks, days, hours, and minutes until the pool opened up again. Every now and then I'd give my co-workers an update. Ah, they loved this. :woot:
it's 75 here :thhbbb:
You really know how to torture those of us that live in the cooler part of our great country, don't you.
It snowed here last night and its raining now.:mad: The pool was 72 when I worked out during my lunch break.
floyd, i'm a little jealous, actually. i've never seen snow. the coolest it ever gets here is 30, and that's only for a day or two! i'll be lucky if it's 70 for thanksgiving.
We could trade places for a few months. I know my kids would love to spend a winter in Florida (so would I). When the nightime temps drop below zero (I've seen it at -30) in December and January,you probably won't like it so much.
But back to the thread.... night swimming with only the pool lights is great for a relaxing swim but I don't think I would want to do a hard workout at night.
I swim outside and like it early a.m.,still dark, then the transition to daylight when the pool lights go off and the sun comes up. I also like swimming in the rain, warm water with cool rain feels good to me.
both situations you described are nice to swim in. i love it when it's raining. feels so nice on my back and shoulders. not really that fun on backstroke though.
Good question; never thought of this. But, I am a morning person all the way, I can barely stay awake past 8:30 pm, so I choose daytime, but I love the early daytime, just after the sun rises when you can smell the damp grass as you are walking to the pool and then the smell of chlorine and no one is around except "swimmers." And I find I can only train well during the daytime; just don't have much gas left in the tank in the evenings. But that occasional nighttime swim when it is dark and the pool lights are on is a wonderful feeling. Hanging on the wall and looking at the stars is soothing to my body and soul.
Donna
