Is there a list of 50 meter indoor or outdoor pools nationwide. I am looking for one someehere in th emiddle of the US. It would be really great if lane lines were used too. Thanks, Josh
Josh,
I can give you information for 50-meter pools in Kansas (Topeka, Lawrence, Kansas City metropolitan area) and Missouri (Kansas City metropolitan area, Columbia, and St. Louis).
It would help if you could give me a little more information about why you are looking for a pool (to swim in, to purchase, etc.). You can contact me by e-mail through the Member Directory in these forums.
Anna Lea
I'd take a look at some of the big university pools in the area. Places like Minnesota, IUPUI in Indy, Purdue, Ohio State and Michigan all have really nice indoor facilities. Whether they have much in terms of public lap swims sessions will be the big question.
You really don't know the area do you?
www.swimmersguide.com/.../Main1.cfm
Should be able to find one here......
That's going to miss a lot of possibilities (again, depending a lot on
criteria which were not mentioned in the original post). To be listed
they require that the pool be open eight months a year. I'm not aware
of any outdoor pools in the Chicago area which are open that long.
They are all generally open Memorial Day to Labor Day, perhaps with
some early or late weekends. Weather is a prime consideration, but so
too is availability of staff. Most of these pools tend to be staffed
by college students on summer break.
Skip
I'd take a look at some of the big university pools in the area. Places like Minnesota, IUPUI in Indy, Purdue, Ohio State and Michigan all have really nice indoor facilities. Whether they have much in terms of public lap swims sessions will be the big question.
> The perfect destination would be an indoor (taking bad weather out
> of the equation) 50 LCM pool that has lane lines and lots of open
> lap swim times. Lane lines may be a luxury we can do without if need
> be.
The UIC pool and Chicago Masters team are run by Paul Moniak, the
men's/women's coach there. I did my 5k postal there in 2005. He was
pretty flexible about access. My guess is that if you contacted him
ahead of time you could arrange something.
If you want to try the lake the NASA masters team swims in the lake at
Northwestern once a week during the summer, probably starting in early
July and going until late August. In the past the lake practice has
been on Monday evenings, but I'm lobbying for Saturday mornings this
year to avoid problems with fading sunlight.
Skip
I should point out that the reason I didn't mention Northwestern's pool (it is quite nice)
is that it's essentially never set up long course except when the school teams have
practice.
Skip
