One 100 free to go in set. Two open lanes.(no lane lines in pool) Noodler comes over to stand in my lane to talk with friend. Pool is set at 85 degrees cause all the noodlers say it is to cold otherwise. I complain to guard, am told, "well there are a lot more of them then there are lap swimmers" Wont be if they keep this up. UGH! :frustrated:
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You probably come through as a very positive role model. They probably are (marginally) more attentive and (again, marginally) more focused during their actual swim sets...
Thoughts? Ideas? Rebuttals?
I had an interesting conversation with my daughter last night - she's 6 BTW...
R "Mummy, I want to do swimming again in the summer. First I'll enter the IM"
Me "Good for you - I'm glad you like your swimming"
R "I think I'll keep swimming until I'm maybe 14, then give up"
Me "Why do you think you'll give up when you get to 14?"
R "Well maybe I'll carry on until I'm all grown up - like you. Yes that'd be really cool"
And she then went on to ask if I would be swimming at the state championships again next year. At which point I said I would if she did!\
....and now back to noodler-bashing.....
No noodler problems for me, but there was a rather "interesting" class going on in the 2 lanes usually reserved for lap swimmers today. A group of women were doing a couple of lengths bad freestyle followed by tricep dips and the like on the side of the pool. I went in the lane next to them - They kept looking over at me suspiciously...as I did back to them :laugh2:
You probably come through as a very positive role model. They probably are (marginally) more attentive and (again, marginally) more focused during their actual swim sets...
Thoughts? Ideas? Rebuttals?
I had an interesting conversation with my daughter last night - she's 6 BTW...
R "Mummy, I want to do swimming again in the summer. First I'll enter the IM"
Me "Good for you - I'm glad you like your swimming"
R "I think I'll keep swimming until I'm maybe 14, then give up"
Me "Why do you think you'll give up when you get to 14?"
R "Well maybe I'll carry on until I'm all grown up - like you. Yes that'd be really cool"
And she then went on to ask if I would be swimming at the state championships again next year. At which point I said I would if she did!\
....and now back to noodler-bashing.....
No noodler problems for me, but there was a rather "interesting" class going on in the 2 lanes usually reserved for lap swimmers today. A group of women were doing a couple of lengths bad freestyle followed by tricep dips and the like on the side of the pool. I went in the lane next to them - They kept looking over at me suspiciously...as I did back to them :laugh2:
