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.
Our workouts are usually 2-6 people per lane, 6 lanes. The lanes are all arranged by speed so usually people are roughly similar in speed. Although start up a fly or IM set with 6 people in the lane and surrounded by 6 person lanes and it gets crazy, kind of like swimming open water. Our Saturday mornings are like that.
On a tangent I see lots of comments about arguing over or getting to go first as if everyone wants to lead. Is that the case for most people? I know certainly in my lane (the fastest lane usually) at our workouts it's always a big fight over who HAS to lead. Once the main set comes up the excuses start flowing, and everyone has one. "My shoulder is stiff", "I was out of the water last week", "I want to work on my stroke", "I'm feeling really tired today". We tend to fight over who gets to go last. All of us are standing under the flags, no one wanting to take the wall.
Anyone else that way or is that just an ex-age group/college mentality or something? I find if there aren't many in the lane I prefer to go last even if I have to give the person in front of me 15 or 20 seconds so that I can set my own pace and am not getting run over by someone who wants to take out a 400 as if it were a 50.
Our workouts are usually 2-6 people per lane, 6 lanes. The lanes are all arranged by speed so usually people are roughly similar in speed. Although start up a fly or IM set with 6 people in the lane and surrounded by 6 person lanes and it gets crazy, kind of like swimming open water. Our Saturday mornings are like that.
On a tangent I see lots of comments about arguing over or getting to go first as if everyone wants to lead. Is that the case for most people? I know certainly in my lane (the fastest lane usually) at our workouts it's always a big fight over who HAS to lead. Once the main set comes up the excuses start flowing, and everyone has one. "My shoulder is stiff", "I was out of the water last week", "I want to work on my stroke", "I'm feeling really tired today". We tend to fight over who gets to go last. All of us are standing under the flags, no one wanting to take the wall.
Anyone else that way or is that just an ex-age group/college mentality or something? I find if there aren't many in the lane I prefer to go last even if I have to give the person in front of me 15 or 20 seconds so that I can set my own pace and am not getting run over by someone who wants to take out a 400 as if it were a 50.
