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!
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Former Member
I drive 20 miles, averaging 50+ minutes, from work to the University of Maryland's pool, three days a week. On the way, I drive past:
Rockville Municipal Swim Center - public, 2 indoor SCM and 1 outdoor LCM (summer only)
Montgomery Aquatic Center - public, indoor SCM
B-CC YMCA - where I am a part-time member - 2 indoor SCY, 1 outdoor SCM
Stone Ridge HS pool (indoor SCY)
Georgetown Prep HS pool (indoor SCM x SCY)
Silver Spring YMCA - SCM outdoor
Tacoma Recreation Center (DC) - indoor 50m, usually SCYPrep's pool is actually really nice (it costs $23k/yr to go there). But for all the other convenient pools (RMSC is 2 mi down the street), I'd rather swim at UMD. I know the facility is clean. The air is not stifling. The water is bearable. The pool is not a small hole in the ground. The Masters team is active and good. The coaches are top-notch, ambitious, and very knowlegeable about the latest and greatest technique.
You are one lucky swimmer to be able to use that pool!
I used to live near several awsome pools in the DC area,
but had lost interest in swimming at the time.
Now I swim almost daily and don't have the time to
drive more than 10-15 min. to get to a better pool.
The Y will have to do....:sad:
I drive 20 miles, averaging 50+ minutes, from work to the University of Maryland's pool, three days a week. On the way, I drive past:
Rockville Municipal Swim Center - public, 2 indoor SCM and 1 outdoor LCM (summer only)
Montgomery Aquatic Center - public, indoor SCM
B-CC YMCA - where I am a part-time member - 2 indoor SCY, 1 outdoor SCM
Stone Ridge HS pool (indoor SCY)
Georgetown Prep HS pool (indoor SCM x SCY)
Silver Spring YMCA - SCM outdoor
Tacoma Recreation Center (DC) - indoor 50m, usually SCYPrep's pool is actually really nice (it costs $23k/yr to go there). But for all the other convenient pools (RMSC is 2 mi down the street), I'd rather swim at UMD. I know the facility is clean. The air is not stifling. The water is bearable. The pool is not a small hole in the ground. The Masters team is active and good. The coaches are top-notch, ambitious, and very knowlegeable about the latest and greatest technique.
You are one lucky swimmer to be able to use that pool!
I used to live near several awsome pools in the DC area,
but had lost interest in swimming at the time.
Now I swim almost daily and don't have the time to
drive more than 10-15 min. to get to a better pool.
The Y will have to do....:sad:
