Ready..VENT! What keeps you from getting to the pool?
Me first.
I am so bummed. Traffic was all jammed up because of an accident and oil spill on the expressway. It took me 2 hours and 10 minutes to get home. That's a 10 mile drive. I could have run faster if they let me take a straight line on the highway. I sat and peeled and ate an orange without even creeping forward. And not one of those tangelos or zipper peel kinds. Thank goodness I had snacks. I certainly didn't think to visit the ladies room before I left work. Normally even in the worst of traffic it's less than an hour. I couldn't even get off the highway because all the exits were jammed because the city was blocked up because people couldn't get on the highway.
And I thought traffic was going to be wasy because of school vacation week.
I work full time and go to school part time. That ate up all my swimming time for the evening. I went to work and left work early to get in some good pool time tonight.
Blech.
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Ugh today I experienced what many of you have ranted about on previous threads, and I have complete sympathy for you all now.
So i get to the YMCA and im all set to do a 6,400 yard workout that focused on sprint freestyle. I walk into the pool area and don't see too many ppl in the lanes so I'm like "sweet!" so I walk around the pool to notice the one lifeguard fixing a lanes closed sign to 2 of the lanes that were empty. I was like "WHAT?!?!" Turns out, one of the lifeguards didn't show up this morning so they couldn't open the whole pool. So I hoped in with someone...eventually they got out, and I was like "good, just as I'm getting ready to start my main set I'll have my own lane" no sooner had I said that, that someone else got in. So I had to share the lane while I did my whole main set. About 1.5hours after I got in, other guards showed up, so I was like "YAY, now the other lanes will be opened!" and they were...for 4minutes, and then they closed again for swim lessons. Long story short, I wasn't going to stay, or do my whole workout because its annoying sprinting and trying to do a hard set when your having to concentrate on not running into the person your sharing a lane with, and trying to be atleast somewhat polite and not completly drown a slower swimmer that your sharing with.
So i completly understand those of you who have previously ranted about sharing lanes. Although, I will also say that I have met some of the nicest people in this past week swimming in the early hours at the YMCA. Haven't really talked with anyone, but people are always nice, and let me join their lane. I wonder if anyone is a masters swimmer. Today one of the women I shared a lane with was doing a lot of 50s on her back with zoomers SDK...and I thought about some of the posters on here who are fans of such activity:-D
Ugh today I experienced what many of you have ranted about on previous threads, and I have complete sympathy for you all now.
So i get to the YMCA and im all set to do a 6,400 yard workout that focused on sprint freestyle. I walk into the pool area and don't see too many ppl in the lanes so I'm like "sweet!" so I walk around the pool to notice the one lifeguard fixing a lanes closed sign to 2 of the lanes that were empty. I was like "WHAT?!?!" Turns out, one of the lifeguards didn't show up this morning so they couldn't open the whole pool. So I hoped in with someone...eventually they got out, and I was like "good, just as I'm getting ready to start my main set I'll have my own lane" no sooner had I said that, that someone else got in. So I had to share the lane while I did my whole main set. About 1.5hours after I got in, other guards showed up, so I was like "YAY, now the other lanes will be opened!" and they were...for 4minutes, and then they closed again for swim lessons. Long story short, I wasn't going to stay, or do my whole workout because its annoying sprinting and trying to do a hard set when your having to concentrate on not running into the person your sharing a lane with, and trying to be atleast somewhat polite and not completly drown a slower swimmer that your sharing with.
So i completly understand those of you who have previously ranted about sharing lanes. Although, I will also say that I have met some of the nicest people in this past week swimming in the early hours at the YMCA. Haven't really talked with anyone, but people are always nice, and let me join their lane. I wonder if anyone is a masters swimmer. Today one of the women I shared a lane with was doing a lot of 50s on her back with zoomers SDK...and I thought about some of the posters on here who are fans of such activity:-D
