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.
On a related note, our coach is usually fantastic with maintaining equal distribution of swimmers throughout the lanes, and moving people around based on speed.
As someone else mentioned, on some days the fastest lane could have 6-7 swimmers, while a lane 2 down only has 2. There's days when I get in my, "usual," lane (3rd fastest), and the coach will ask me to move to one of the faster or slower lanes to even things out. I'll usually assess the number of swimmers in the lanes on either side, and move over on my own, depending on the set and the speed of the swimmers in those lanes.
When we've done some FAST sets (such as 100s on 6:00), he does 2 (or 3) swimmers per heat (10 sec apart), with heats 2 minutes apart. Even our slowest swimmers can do a 100 SCY in 2:00, so it works out very well.
On a related note, our coach is usually fantastic with maintaining equal distribution of swimmers throughout the lanes, and moving people around based on speed.
As someone else mentioned, on some days the fastest lane could have 6-7 swimmers, while a lane 2 down only has 2. There's days when I get in my, "usual," lane (3rd fastest), and the coach will ask me to move to one of the faster or slower lanes to even things out. I'll usually assess the number of swimmers in the lanes on either side, and move over on my own, depending on the set and the speed of the swimmers in those lanes.
When we've done some FAST sets (such as 100s on 6:00), he does 2 (or 3) swimmers per heat (10 sec apart), with heats 2 minutes apart. Even our slowest swimmers can do a 100 SCY in 2:00, so it works out very well.
