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.
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Yes it's a problem. Sadly our pool is often populated primarily by the head-up-breaststroke variety. If it's not too crowded, you can usually split a lane with one of them, which works as long as they can swim straight. Otherwise you end up circling and having to pass every 20 seconds. Not a good situation for anyone. Though the head-up-breaststrokers don't usually have a set workout on intervals, or do flip turns, so disturbing their swimming rhythm is (hopefully) less of a problem.
Of course you occasionally end up with idiots in your lane who think it's a good idea to stop and talk to their buddy -- MID-LAP. But that's more appropriate content for Ande's swim rant.
It's a good time to practice breaststroke! :dedhorse:
Yes it's a problem. Sadly our pool is often populated primarily by the head-up-breaststroke variety. If it's not too crowded, you can usually split a lane with one of them, which works as long as they can swim straight. Otherwise you end up circling and having to pass every 20 seconds. Not a good situation for anyone. Though the head-up-breaststrokers don't usually have a set workout on intervals, or do flip turns, so disturbing their swimming rhythm is (hopefully) less of a problem.
Of course you occasionally end up with idiots in your lane who think it's a good idea to stop and talk to their buddy -- MID-LAP. But that's more appropriate content for Ande's swim rant.
It's a good time to practice breaststroke! :dedhorse:
