Here is a thread for the worst pools that you competed at.
Mine is University Of Pittsburgh. That is the worst pool ever. I don't know if it was the pool or the situation at the time but I am swam very crappy at that pool.
And when I swam National Senior Games there 4 years ago, I had personal bests in all 6 events I swam. Including my only 59 sec. 100 free.
Here is a thread for the worst pools that you competed at.
Mine is University Of Pittsburgh. That is the worst pool ever. I don't know if it was the pool or the situation at the time but I am swam very crappy at that pool.
Summer:
Manor Woods Swim Club, Bethesda, MD
6x25m, concrete
5ft in the deep/starting end of the pool
2.5 feet in the shallow end
mind you, my only experience in that pool was as a 5'10" 17y/o. Turns 1 & 3 of my 100 free were a bit dicey.
Walls: Hillendale in Silver Spring MD circa 1990. An outdoor 25m pool, MCSL summer league. The walls were slipperier than glass - if your flip turn wasn't perfectly square on, your feet would slip sideways and you'd get no pushoff. Backstroke starts were problematic as well.
Blocks: Iona College circa 1993. They had pretty nice blocks... that were barely attached to the floor. The blocks rocked back several inches on every start.
Any pool in the city of Warner Robins....they all suck! Have to either drive up to Macon or out to Robins AFB.......
I'll second that!! And with some you have to be packing to be safe.
Rotterdam Boys Club, NY. Swam there for our high school team. 20 yard, 5 or 6 lane pool made of metal. If you pound on the bottom the paint would float to the surface. After our first practice there, the coach tested the water and it had no chlorine in it! Nasty.
Dad's Club YMCA 50 Meter Pool - pre-aerator days. August 76 State Age Group Championships- they dumped 2 tons of ice in the pool between prelims and finals and the ice was gone and the water temp was still in the mid 80s.
They also had steel gutter covers which provided a high flat wall with a cheese grater surface for us to do our turns on.
Shelby High School, Shelby, NC - an aquatic abomination.
Shelby? Heck, you were lucky to have plumbing at all.
Two of the worst pools I can remember: East Carolina and the old U of Md pool. The ECU pool actually wasn't too bad except for the wall you had to scale to get out, making relays pretty interesting. You always had to keep a little in reserve so you had enough energy to scamper out before the next leg got to the 50. At the U of Md they had to get someone to sit on the blocks for backstroke events.
