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:
People can be rude in the pool, no question. The best course of action is usually just to swim around them.
not true, the best of course of action is to swim OVER them.
ooooh, unless your from Seattle where it is politically incorrect.
You just proved their point.
Ah, but am I wrong?! :banana:
I don't mind the "noodlers" much. At most of the pools I frequent, if you are swimming laps the non-swimmers tend to stay out of the way. I think many of the hostile ones do have a bit of swimmer-envy...
Keith, why not join one of the 2 master's practice locations in town? If you don't want to do that, the North River Y is pretty nice too. They have 2 pools as well. One a big lap pool and the other one is a shallower warm water pool.
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I looked at the Baylor Masters progam and whats the other one? The Baylor facility is awesome but unfortunatetly my schedule(work 7p-7a) does not work with the lap time schedule and practice sessions. Downtown seems the most compatible with my schedule since I have to go thru downtown to and from work.
Left one health club because of the noodlers. They ran their program at 6:15to 7:00 and took 3 of the 5 lanes (the ones with lines) and left an open 25m and a 25 y lane that always stayed open. They hung on & broke lane lines, but needed the deep water instead of the open area. Complaints did not work changing to the club closer to work did not work (they started at 6:00).
I asked about rescheduling the class to a point within the workday since the majority of the noodlers are no longer in the work force. The reason the regional aquatics director gave me was that it was when they could get an instructor there to run the aqua hokey pokey. Lap swimmers had 23 other hours to swim, it did not matter that the lap swimmers were in the working age bracket and could not swim during business hours.
New club had better rules and a colder indoor pool which kept most noodlers in the other pool, but we ran into the other health club problem - the gold chain gang. The hairy sweaty guys that would come out of the sauna or the hot tub and lounge at the end of the pool and talk.
Wookie
I looked at the Baylor Masters progam and whats the other one? The Baylor facility is awesome.
Well, being a Baylor alum, I will agree. In fact, the guys team was named private school national champions this year.
The other group is at McCallie. M-W-F-S. Organized time is 6-7 am during the week. Usually, the pool is open by 5:30, so a bunch will get in early. And you can stay later than 7 too. Saturdays vary.
Let's pile on some more. Not only do they make pool swimming unbearable but they take their antics beyond the pool. Their lockerroom behavior borders on fetishism - specific lockers they use, specific sinks and shower stalls not to mention some showering rituals that really shouldn't be done in public. Let me tell you I've about had my fill of seeing grapes hanging out of WWII era grippers that lost their elastic back when Ike was the president.
After their one hour in the locker area they take it out to the lounge area where they frequently fall flat asleep on the chairs or sofas like it's a flop house. IF YOU NEED A NAP AT 7 AM MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T COME TO THE GYM AT 5 AM. God help the minimum wage staff at the front desk if the free coffee runs out.
All of you also need to be on high alert cause they have discovered group exericse programs also. Had one wear ear plugs to spin and yell for the instructor to turn down the music. The instrutor stayed strong and didn't comply, for now.
Thats sounds wonderful. I have a 1 week pass to use up for the Y and I guess I will use it at the downtown branch. I haven`t done any real lap swimming since high school 20 yrs ago and I might look more like a noodler than a swimmer for those first few workouts.:D
Keith, why not join one of the 2 master's practice locations in town? If you don't want to do that, the North River Y is pretty nice too. They have 2 pools as well. One a big lap pool and the other one is a shallower warm water pool.
...The scenerio: 4 lane lap pool. (kept at 85 degrees, because it is to cold for the rudeler noodlers otherwise) 10 minutes until rudelers class starts....
This needs to be nipped in the bud. At my community pool, the aquasizers were getting in 10 minutes early...then 14... then 16... then 20. Finally the lifeguards (we have GREAT lifeguards) told them they had to wait until their class actually began to get in.
Then there was the instructor of the 7:30-8:30 p.m. class who would consistantly let her class run 10 minutes over into the remaining one hour lap swim and shriek like a banshee at any swimmer who dared to climb in on time. Haven't seen her in a while. I think that she - and many other "noodlers" - tend to see the lap swim times as a blank spot on the schedule that hasn't been filled with anything in particular.
You paid just as much for your membership or drop-in as any of them (maybe less, if they're getting a seniors discount) so your lap swim is just as important, even if there are more of them. I suspect it just seems like there are more of them, as they tend to all congregate in the same spot at the same time.
Noodlers make workouts interesting.
I do more 1 length sprints when noodlers are around.
Just look before you go. It is like crossing the street. Look to the left, look to the right then to the left and go when it is clear.
What I don't get about my Y is that there is a large bath-water hot pool and another 6 lane lap pool. The lap pool is kept 83-84 degrees because the noodlers...and I quote..."don't want to get wet" in the other pool and don't like swimming with kids. The pool heater was broken for 3 months this summer...it was heavenly.
