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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How about the guys that do the serious water resistant training - high stepping and what not? I've got to give them props as they always look to be in better shape than anyone and as far as I can tell know how to share a lane.
You should have put a noodle there, so they know someone else has occupied the lane already.
How are they supposed to know what the mesh bag and all that other stuff means :p
But Connie.... the noodlers are getting to where they have more gear than we do, and require their own luggage! At my pool they may be packing:
one or more "traditional" noodles
a version of the lifeguard "buoy", complete with shoulder strap
two oversized hand-held dumbells with foam floats where the weights would go
a similar device with an elongated rod (like a pugil stick)
two "resistance paddles" that have adjustable "paddles" to increase or decrease the resistance
fins
goggles
cap
lap counter
water bottle
timing device (watch or small clock)
water ipod equivalent
It seems technology has made noodling an economy all it's own!
Not really a noodler but a lap swimmer incident today. We have a LC pool with 10 lanes. The outside 4 lanes are for one age group team, then an open (buffer) lane, 3 lanes for my age group team, and then 2 lap swimming lanes. In the middle of practice today, a lap swimmer hops in to one of the lanes the other age group team is using and starts to swim with them. Just gets right in... He looked to be in his 60s. Did he not notice that they all had red matching caps on?! Did he not notice that they were all in their teens?! The lifeguard came over to him after he finished a 100 and got him to move to a lap swimming lane. :confused:
Yesterday I got out after warm up to use the little girls' room....and while I was out of the pool, a noodler hopped into my lane. I came back and this person was swimming elementary whatever down the middle. Really? Didn't see my mesh bag and water bottle?
Same thing has happened to me twice recently, despite the fact that there was an empty lane next to me (with no stuff piled up at the end)
Same thing has happened to me twice recently, despite the fact that there was an empty lane next to me (with no stuff piled up at the end)
I don't get this. If someone walks into the natatorium and sees an empty lane with some gear piled at the end, then they have no way to know how long that stuff has been sitting there, how long the owner will be away, and so on. They may as well use the lane.
I agree, although I would probably choose the empty lane with nothing at the end rather than the one with the drink and the baggy-clad phone propped up :)
the moral of the story is...just pee in the pool!! :)
One way to avoid noodlers: Swim at 5:00 a.m.
You rarely find anyone other than devout lap swimmers or master's swimmers at that hour! I did have an altercation with 3 aqua jogger's who wanted to go 3 abreast but that's another story! :argue:
One way to avoid noodlers: Swim at 5:00 a.m.
You rarely find anyone other than devout lap swimmers or master's swimmers at that hour! I did have an altercation with 3 aqua jogger's who wanted to go 3 abreast but that's another story! :argue:
Oh, those crazy aqua joggers can be as bad as the noodlers. My last gym we had an aquanoodler who wore a wetsuit daily in 87 degree water, now that's loco.
One way to avoid noodlers: Swim at 5:00 a.m.
You rarely find anyone other than devout lap swimmers or master's swimmers at that hour! I did have an altercation with 3 aqua jogger's who wanted to go 3 abreast but that's another story! :argue:
Not in my pool. I swim (in the summer) at 5:15-7:15. The pool opens to the public at 5:30 and they are in the parking lot at 5am waiting for the doors to open. When 5:30 hits, you know it! They show up, walk their 2 laps and get out to go to the front desk to make their complaint of the day.
