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:
Well at least they are trying something!
Chances are if you could strap a heart rate moniter on most noodlers you would probably be surprised to find they are in their target heart rate zone.
Years ago when I started using HRM's in my PE classes I was shocked to find most of the over-weight kids who I thought were lazy and not working hard were really working as hard as they should have been working. Some of the trained or more gifted students were actually the slackers...their heart rates were low even though they were participating very actively. Sometimes the truth isn't what it looks like it should be.
Give the poor noodlers a break and try to be their friend. They are probably in awe of your mad skills and would be flattered if you talked to them. :angel:
I hit my target HR during that rendition of YMCA at Nationals last week!!! Anyone who was there knows what I am refering to.
from laughing so hard or from participating?
;)
I'm currently recovering from an injury due to a Noodler who was not paying attention. At my gym, I only run into them on the weekends - during the week, I'm there @ 5am, long before they are stirring. On the weekends, the gym does not open until 8am, and they have a noodle class @ 9:30am. This should not pose a problem, except that they all get into the pool about 30 minutes before the workout starts...and stand around chatting and watching me swim. This past sunday, one of them was crossing my lane (I was not aware of this) - waited until I was doing a flip turn, and came into my lane about 4 yards from the wall. I saw her at the last second, pulled up (and sideways) to avoid hitting her and scraped my forehead HARD on the lane line (that was a first - fingers, arms...sure - but not my forehead). I stopped and stood up, she apologized and then said, "your head is bleeding". I got out of the pool and...sure enough, I had blood dripping down my face. I now have a mark that looks like Mikhail Gorbachev's mark but dead center on my forehead. :cane: In hindsight, I should have held the SDK right into her...
By any chance are you referring to the MOO contingent? I had noticed their spotted swimwear but didn't see the full name until later (Masters of Orlando). What a hoot!
For those of you who were unable to attend, three well muscled male swimmers donned appropriate Village People headgear and assisted the Maryland team in singing the YMCA song. Additionally "Esther Williams" and "Michael Phelps" joined in the festivities, Esther with a aqua ballet routine.
There are multiple YMCAs in my town. At the downtown Y the noodlers use the "instructional pool" (the warmer, smaller pool) and the lap pool is left a little cooler and always have lane lines for lap swimmers. It's too bad that it's one of the farther ones for me to drive to. But it's refreshing when I do.
When I swim there, the end of my workout often coincides with the "cool-down" portion of the noodlers' class. As I walk past them, they're all floating on their backs, eyes closed, with a noodle behind their necks (and for some, another behind their waists.) They're all just floating there, arms extended, eyes shut, motionless except for subtle bobbing due to the ripples of waves in the pool.
And each time I can't help but think of various WWII movies when they show the dead bodies floating in the surf after the beach assault.
When I swim there, the end of my workout often coincides with the "cool-down" portion of the noodlers' class. As I walk past them, they're all floating on their backs, eyes closed, with a noodle behind their necks (and for some, another behind their waists.) They're all just floating there, arms extended, eyes shut, motionless except for subtle bobbing due to the ripples of waves in the pool.
And don't you just wish that you had a handful of piranhas to throw in?
And don't you just wish that you had a handful of piranhas to throw in?
Know what? I'd like to toss in just a single frog.
They'd all get more exercise in that brief panic-exit than they did their entire "workout" that day. (A person doesn't burn off many calories by talking...)
Know what? I'd like to toss in just a single frog.
)
And what exactly is the frog being punished for?
Nobody's noodled in my lane yet.
I have to wonder why they bother. I've been swimming off and on since Feb, and 3-6 days a week for the last 6 weeks or so. I've lost over 30 pounds since I started, and I bet some of the noodlers would be lucky to have shed 2#.
Every day I see somebody floating there and I think they are wasting their time. The women anyways. Hanging ouy but not so much on the exercising part.
There is a large dude in the pool a lot, and I don't think I've seen him with a noodle, and he does laps. Slowly and surely, but ALWAYS moving. In fact, I think he's doing more over time.
Noodle perchers I think are just socializing, but my experience is that they stick to the open swim deep end out of the way. Guess I'm lucky.
Now if I get just get them to stop running the heaters while I'm trying to swim.
Hot, cold, hot, cold, hot, flip, repeat. Pick one already.
-eric
