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!
I'm surmising the reason the pool is kept at a decent temperature is because a major USA team practices there, a high school team practices there, and high school meets are held there.
I agree that this is the key. As a general rule no serious team is going to practice in a hot tub. The fallacy of the hot pool is that it is either so hot as to discourage active movement from the seniors as they could roast alive or is so comfortable that they don't exercise at all. You keep a pool at 80 and folks need to stay active to keep the chill off.
There's a good chance I'll go postal if I hear one more complaint by a noodler in 87 degree water with a lane to herself as I'm swimming with 5 other adults in a single lane doing fly. Then there is the bum-rush at 4:59 am to get their "regular" lane but that's another thread topic.
I'm surmising the reason the pool is kept at a decent temperature is because a major USA team practices there, a high school team practices there, and high school meets are held there.
I agree that this is the key. As a general rule no serious team is going to practice in a hot tub. The fallacy of the hot pool is that it is either so hot as to discourage active movement from the seniors as they could roast alive or is so comfortable that they don't exercise at all. You keep a pool at 80 and folks need to stay active to keep the chill off.
There's a good chance I'll go postal if I hear one more complaint by a noodler in 87 degree water with a lane to herself as I'm swimming with 5 other adults in a single lane doing fly. Then there is the bum-rush at 4:59 am to get their "regular" lane but that's another thread topic.
