I coach at a YMCA pool (built in 1956 and is a 20 yard pool) where the air temperature ranges around 92-95 degrees and the water temp is usually around 88 degrees. Also, there is poor ventilation because the ventilation system is not working properly. Lately I have come home after coaching with terrible headaches. I worry about our age-group swimmers too because they are working out in such warm temps. The maintenance dept and Y will not lower the temp and have not taken our complaints as a priority. Is this a dangerous situation or do I need to just grin and bear it. Please advise if anyone can help or tell me who we can alert. Thanks!
You are in a no-win situation. It is impossible to train at any decent level at those temperatures but is probably not dangerous (unless somebody gets heat stroke--but that would be a pretty tough kid that could push himself to that kind of pain in those temperatures). I agree that involving outside parties is useless. With environmental issues (and a multitude of things in the environment), it will be impossible to prove your headaches are from the toxic waste dump you are swimming in and raising a stink will most probably get the program booted as they don't want to deal with the aggravation.
You are in a no-win situation. It is impossible to train at any decent level at those temperatures but is probably not dangerous (unless somebody gets heat stroke--but that would be a pretty tough kid that could push himself to that kind of pain in those temperatures). I agree that involving outside parties is useless. With environmental issues (and a multitude of things in the environment), it will be impossible to prove your headaches are from the toxic waste dump you are swimming in and raising a stink will most probably get the program booted as they don't want to deal with the aggravation.
