Depressed outdoor East coast swimmer

I feel your pain! We always go from open water swimming, long course outdoor pools and our main 25 meter pool with the cover off to nothing at all on September 4th. THEN Tuesday morning I tried to go to the icky indoor 85 degree club pool to at least get a practice in and the night prior someone screwed up the chemicals and it was chartreuse GREEN! Very yucky and obviously closed since. I am having serious pool withdrawal and will probably actually appreciate the "micropool" when it balances again and reopens. I am reduced to the stinkin TREADMILL . . .

I'm right there with you, Renie. I cry when the outdoor pool closes. To add insult to injury, the hottest and most beautiful weather weeks of the summer are usually the 2 weeks after Labor Day. Our pool is called Centennial Beach and my 2 year old said, "Mommy go a Beachy?" hopefully to me yesterday morning. I had to choke back a tear and reply, "No, the Beach is closed till next summer, sweetie." Sigh. Oh well, only 261 days, 21 hours, 17 minutes, and 10 seconds till the Beach opens! not that anyone has written an excel based countdown timer that runs on their computer desktop or anything ;)

I'm right there with you, Renie. I cry when the outdoor pool closes. To add insult to injury, the hottest and most beautiful weather weeks of the summer are usually the 2 weeks after Labor Day. Oh well, only 261 days, 21 hours, 17 minutes, and 10 seconds till the Beach opens! Haha, now I have a goal! Yup, gonna be 90 this week! Ughhh:doh:

I feel your pain. I swam indoors at lunch today for the first time in 3 months. Booooo!!! And what was your water temp indoors?

Geek, you are completely right. In fact, since the schools here start 2 weeks before Labor Day, the Beach closes down during the week and is just open on weekends for those last 2 weeks. It still sucks when it closes for good. There's just something sooooo nice about swimming outside, LCM, even if you're swimming in a pool that so algae-filled you can't really see the lanelines on the bottom. Wow, what beach is that? Bummer! My last day outdoors, the water was 75 but it was so sunny and warm, it felt like heaven. I don't know how I will cope -- guess I need to buy a house and install a lap lane inground pool - should only cost about $700,000 total. Think it's worth it? I'd open the pool and swim from April 1 to November.

I totally feel your pain. At least you got to swim until Labor Day. Our outdoor pool closed August 15th. I have been indoors for 3 weeks. It is awful.:cry:

my lunchtime outdoor LCM pool is still open limited hours during the week, including during lunch. Now instead of 3 LCM lanes, the whole pool is lap lanes. Only problem is I have no idea how long they'll keep it open, and chances are by the time I am not hobbling around on my peg leg, outdoors will be closed. And yeah, summer isn't over until september 23. A lot of these places should consider staying open limited hours (ie weekends only) until at least the 2nd weekend after labor day. Sure staffing is tough, but we all pay enough... Wopw, what town do you live in? I envy you. I'm with you on extending the summer outdoor pool time. I would gladly give up some petunias or pansies in our every-changing landscaping for more hours -- heck, I'd guard the pool! Are you injured? I'm in a post-op shoe - broke my toe last weekend just in time for my week off to play tennis and go to the US Open. Needless to say, I could not do either. Thankfully I could swim - a bit painfully, but I was so happy I could swim, I'd take any pain.

It's not really a beach. It's a converted limestone quarry. There is a 50 LCM pool across the middle. www.napervilleparks.org/.../ The water temp was probably similar to yours last weekend, but the sunshine and hot air felt great! I like your plan - go for it! Heehee. My husband's grand scheme upon winning the lottery is to build a world-class 50m pool (he's hoping for a BIG payout). My goal is smaller... I just want a 2 lane scy pool that can be bubbled over in the winter... with blocks, touchpads, and a full Colorado timing system installed! :D That's cool - hmm, we don't ask for much huh? I'll join your hubbie's pool - let me know when it's open!:applaud: Or, is the 50m pool just for him and you? :D

The left coast has it's advantages. Our outdoor pool is open all year..rain or shine.

It's not really a beach. It's a converted limestone quarry. There is a 50 LCM pool across the middle. www.napervilleparks.org/.../ Very cool. Is it open to non-residents? If so, I'll have to come over and give it a try next summer sometime. Does the Naperville team practice there in the summer? Skip Montanaro