I have been swimming with my local masters for a year now. Our pool is six lanes. Lane 1 is the slowest lane and lane 6 is the fastest lane. It has been this way for years. It is usually two or three of us that are stuck in lane six against the wall. It has effected our stroke tremendously being against the wall. I never want to do any stroke other than freestyle. I have scraped and hit the wall numerous times trying not to hit other swimmers in my lane.
I know how lane designations are suppose to be setup. Usually the faster swimmers are in the middle and the slower swimmers are on the outside. This encourages a faster pool. Are there any articles that I can present to the other swimmers or does anyone have any advice? A recomendation that is probably going to be adopted is a weekly rotation of lanes. Confusing.
Thanks.
Tony,
Our pool has 9-foot wide lanes, and the wall lane has an extra foot of width b/c of the wall-lane lane rope that is put in when there is a competition. Tony, I am guessing you have skinny lanes and don't have the lanerope there.
If the rotation thing doesn't work, you can try to combine your lanes 5 and 6 - hopefully speeds aren't that different - and swimmers can move back and forth between the two each practice. Putting a few lane 6 swimmers in lane 5 (and vice versa), folks can race each other all practice long. It really puts some excitement into practice and motivates everyone to swim better!
Regardless, wall-lane training isn't all that bad - you get to train through crappy water, so that when you compete in good water, you're that much stronger!
Tony,
Our pool has 9-foot wide lanes, and the wall lane has an extra foot of width b/c of the wall-lane lane rope that is put in when there is a competition. Tony, I am guessing you have skinny lanes and don't have the lanerope there.
If the rotation thing doesn't work, you can try to combine your lanes 5 and 6 - hopefully speeds aren't that different - and swimmers can move back and forth between the two each practice. Putting a few lane 6 swimmers in lane 5 (and vice versa), folks can race each other all practice long. It really puts some excitement into practice and motivates everyone to swim better!
Regardless, wall-lane training isn't all that bad - you get to train through crappy water, so that when you compete in good water, you're that much stronger!
