Hi! New guy to the forums here, and pretty new to lap swimming too -- I've been doing it since May sometime.
More than once when I've wanted to join someone in a lane I've found it difficult to get their attention. At first I thought people just didn't want to share, but then I paid attention while I was swimming and realized that when you're looking at the bottom of the pool it is indeed easy to miss someone standing on the edge.
So what do you do? I've taken to dangling my feet deep enough that they're hard to miss, but is this obnoxious? Does anybody have pointers for getting someone's attention without annoying them when you need to share a lane?
A general rule: the slower the swimmer, the less likely they want to share.
The other day I had a slow swimmer noodler type ask me if I would vacate my lane to swim with another lap swimmer so she could float about unhindered. You can only imagine my reaction ...
Then, another day recently, a "swimmer" ask me to vacate the lane I had just hopped into and to swim in the adjacent lane with another apparently slow lap swimmer so he could have my lane to himself to swim fast. You can only imagine my reaction ...
I can't imagine asking someone to get out of a lane they were using ... I can't imagine circle swimming at a rec pool either ... I'll wait for my half of the lane.
A general rule: the slower the swimmer, the less likely they want to share.
The other day I had a slow swimmer noodler type ask me if I would vacate my lane to swim with another lap swimmer so she could float about unhindered. You can only imagine my reaction ...
Then, another day recently, a "swimmer" ask me to vacate the lane I had just hopped into and to swim in the adjacent lane with another apparently slow lap swimmer so he could have my lane to himself to swim fast. You can only imagine my reaction ...
I can't imagine asking someone to get out of a lane they were using ... I can't imagine circle swimming at a rec pool either ... I'll wait for my half of the lane.
