What's the proper lane etiquette for the following scenario:
You're swimming during common lap swim with two other people who are your speed. The three of you are doing a set workout on specific intervals. You arrived early so you could get a lane. Most other lanes have 2 people in them and are being split.
A fourth person who you do not know (but have seen swim before) wants to join your lane since the other lanes are filled with non-competitive swimmer types. This person is quite a bit faster than the three of you are. The three of you still want to do your workout.
Do you:
a) abandon the workout in order to stay out of this faster guy's way
b) tell him he's welcome to join the workout but that he can lead since he's faster (but you still pick the interval)
c) tell him he's welcome to join the workout, and try to keep up with him in vain when he swims intervals that are impossible for you to keep.
Ah, but if newbie joins us and doesn't want to swim the workout, am I obliged to mess up OUR workout in order to stay out of his way? Because that is the inevitable outcome.
Say we're leaving every 1:40 and he keeps coming in such that we have to leave at 2:00 one time, 1:30 the next time, etc. instead, lest we keep cutting him off. That's what usually happens in these situations.
Eh, as I mentioned in my earlier post, if you got there first, you have squatter's rights for what you are doing in that lane, be it circle/split, the workout, etc. I still say stick with your intervals and cut him off if that is the way it has to be. He can pass you and your lanemates or get into another lane. It sounds like you told him you guys were doing an interval workout and he still agreed to be in your lane.
If he gives you some grief, smile and remind him of what you are doing and re-invite him to lead your lane. If he still doesn't like it, well then I think it is time to ask him to find a new lane.
Ah, but if newbie joins us and doesn't want to swim the workout, am I obliged to mess up OUR workout in order to stay out of his way? Because that is the inevitable outcome.
Say we're leaving every 1:40 and he keeps coming in such that we have to leave at 2:00 one time, 1:30 the next time, etc. instead, lest we keep cutting him off. That's what usually happens in these situations.
Eh, as I mentioned in my earlier post, if you got there first, you have squatter's rights for what you are doing in that lane, be it circle/split, the workout, etc. I still say stick with your intervals and cut him off if that is the way it has to be. He can pass you and your lanemates or get into another lane. It sounds like you told him you guys were doing an interval workout and he still agreed to be in your lane.
If he gives you some grief, smile and remind him of what you are doing and re-invite him to lead your lane. If he still doesn't like it, well then I think it is time to ask him to find a new lane.
