Death to all Noodlers!

I have the same problem with a class running over. The things that really get me are: 1. They are clinging to the side where the lane lines are set up. If they all moved to the other side of the pool , they could run over as much as they wanted to. 2. Lap swim is only 45 minutes long . By the time the class finishes running over by 10 minutes, and the noodlers clear the area and we get lane lines put in, we have maybe 25-30 minutes. To add insult to injury, the lifeguards kick us out at 7:30 on the button. :bitching: Talk to pool management and ask that if they're going to kick you out at precisely 7:30, then they should let you start swimming at precisely 6:45 and they should get the noodlers out and the lane lines set up by 6:45. Also point out that 45 minutes is laughably short for a good swim workout!

Might want to check that with Jazzy. 45 minutes total is 10 months of workouts for him. Aquageek, I love your profile page, "Thank you for stopping by my personal page, now beat it, stalker!" But even better than that are the automated statistics: Join date 2002, total posts 3,924, Friends "Aquageek has not made any friends yet." Six years and over 3000 posts and no friends? That has to be a record, hehe. Maybe Jazzy will swim with you if you will be nice. He may even let you Noodle train in his lane! (JK)

Friends? How many of us have them? Friends? Ones we can depend on? Let's be friends . . .:bliss:

How about we ban all non masters swimmers from our pools and raise our own dues accordingly to compensate for the lost revenue? :)

I actually read a Department of Energy study that states, in heating pools, for each degree over 80 degrees, the cost goes up 10%. So, if pools were kept at 80 the way we lap swimmers like it, it would not cost as much. By giving into the noodlers, pools are having to pay high utility bills, not to mention having to buy more noodles. Lap swimmers/masters swimmers are low-maintenance. With the added heating costs for both the water and the air, the cost of noodles, and the need to fru-fru up the locker rooms, I'm not so sure much money would be lost if the noodling crowd stopped coming because of normal (80 degrees) water temps.

Elise526 The attendence would drop it would take less chemicals to keep it clean. There would be no more noodlers. They would have to close the pool. No money to operate. Therefore it would be death to lap swimmers, noodlers and most learn to swim programs.

Salty: :eeew:

At a pool I worked at a while back, some noodlers complained on a daily basis about the temperature of the pool... it was a tad colder than normal for a while because the heater had broke - they said over and over again that it was some kind of conspiracy. I wanted to laugh, but they would never believe me when I would tell them what happened. These were the same noodlers who complained about getting splashed when they are in the pool. I absolutely cannot stand that... you are in the WATER, you are going to get WET! :frustrated: I don't go to lap swims anymore... masters teams all the way!!!

Elise526 The attendence would drop it would take less chemicals to keep it clean. There would be no more noodlers. They would have to close the pool. No money to operate. Therefore it would be death to lap swimmers, noodlers and most learn to swim programs. This is making no sense to me at all. There are plenty of pools that function without noodlers.

I am almost reluctant to post this "Noodling story" because I had all but blocked it from my memory. I was swimming laps at a local Y at the same time some noodlers were having a class on the other side of the pool. I was in the last lane reserved for lap swimmers, and directly on the other side of my lane line were the noodlers. I was doing a 100 free when, unbeknownst to me, a rather obese noodler had decided to hang backwards on the lane line, with his feet curled backward into my lane. I guess I had good form that day, because I had absolutely no idea that his gnarly, calloused, feet were in my lane. I swam directly over his feet, and I kid you not, my nose passed no less than two inches over his big toe. :eek: Disgusting.