I need some help here folks.
Those of you who "know" me know that I am a beginning "serious" swimmer. I've been slowly but steadily working my way up to swimming a mile as my first goal I'm pleased with the progress I've made, feel stronger, dropped some pounds, added some muscle - all good stuff.
Because I am a slower swimmer, I've tried to be careful not to get in the way of stronger swimmers' workouts. I try to enter lanes where I can match the pace and let people pass me if I get overtaken.
Usually, if I share with just one other person, we split the lane down the middle rather than circle swim. This works out great. If we add another swimmer, we circle. I thought this was the norm for two people.
This evening, though, I asked to share a wall lane with a man who was a faster swimmer. All the other lanes had 2 people. No one was circling. I suggested we split the lane, and he said, no - circle swim only. I warned him that I swim slowly, but no dice. Circle swim only.
So we circle swam - no, he circle swam, and I got out of his way every 50-75 yards. I'm mad at myself because I messed my own workout up as I was pushing myself to swim faster and exhausted myself far short of my goal.
So, please help me out here: is it wrong to split a lane with just 2 people? What is the "right" way to handle this situation? As I develop into a stronger swimmer, I feel I have a place at the pool. I'm just not just where that is.
Many thanks - Barb
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Former Member
The club I once swam with in North Vancouver was great, but since we were actually part of the city's recreation program anybody could join in and were hard to turf out for bad behavior. There was this one triathlete who started swimming in our second fastest lane, always wore huge paddles and more often than not swam over people trying to do stroke sets etc. Until I spotted him swimming over my future wife who was doing breastroke at the time (we had commenced dating). Flames shot out of my nostrils as I donned my paddles, ducked under the ropes, and 'passed' him several times in the same manner. Never saw him again, but future wife was briefly angry as she had planned to launch him with a well-placed breastroke kick.
The club I once swam with in North Vancouver was great, but since we were actually part of the city's recreation program anybody could join in and were hard to turf out for bad behavior. There was this one triathlete who started swimming in our second fastest lane, always wore huge paddles and more often than not swam over people trying to do stroke sets etc. Until I spotted him swimming over my future wife who was doing breastroke at the time (we had commenced dating). Flames shot out of my nostrils as I donned my paddles, ducked under the ropes, and 'passed' him several times in the same manner. Never saw him again, but future wife was briefly angry as she had planned to launch him with a well-placed breastroke kick.
