Just wondering how many swimmers most of you share a lane with during masters workouts. People around here are starting to get indignant when they have to share a lane with someone else during a masters workout. I don't understand it. I was wondering if this is a national phenomenon.
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My opinion is this shouldn't be the lifeguards' responsibility. Their job is not to enforce pool etiquette.
Actually, it usually IS the lifeguards responsibility. A while (while!) back when I was a lifeguard it was right in our handbook that we not only had to display the placards indicating lane-speed, we were also to tell the members that circle-swimming was the rule if it became an issue. That was at a YMCA.
At the community pool I swim at, the members handbook states that during lap swim hours, "patrons will circle-swim in the lap lanes, staying to the right side of the lane." Now there never usually are enough people during lunch-time for that, but we've had two to a lane. Technically we are violating the rules when we "split" the lane rather than circle. But it doesn't matter, the guards are more interested in watching the clock to see when they get to rotate again.
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My opinion is this shouldn't be the lifeguards' responsibility. Their job is not to enforce pool etiquette.
Actually, it usually IS the lifeguards responsibility. A while (while!) back when I was a lifeguard it was right in our handbook that we not only had to display the placards indicating lane-speed, we were also to tell the members that circle-swimming was the rule if it became an issue. That was at a YMCA.
At the community pool I swim at, the members handbook states that during lap swim hours, "patrons will circle-swim in the lap lanes, staying to the right side of the lane." Now there never usually are enough people during lunch-time for that, but we've had two to a lane. Technically we are violating the rules when we "split" the lane rather than circle. But it doesn't matter, the guards are more interested in watching the clock to see when they get to rotate again.
