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?
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I sit on the side and dangle my legs in the pool where they are obvious. If the swimmer stops, I ask "circle or split". Otherwise I wait until I see how they swim for their next 2 lengths to see if they switch to circle swimming or if they move over to just use one half of the lane. If they keep swimming down the middle of the lane, then more drastic measures are needed to share.
I get completely irritable if I am the one in the lane swimming something for time and somebody stops me in the middle of a swim even if it's brief. That might be a convenient moment for them but not for me.
This depends on the ability levels involved, best with experienced swimmers.
I sit on the side and dangle my legs in the pool where they are obvious. If the swimmer stops, I ask "circle or split". Otherwise I wait until I see how they swim for their next 2 lengths to see if they switch to circle swimming or if they move over to just use one half of the lane. If they keep swimming down the middle of the lane, then more drastic measures are needed to share.
I get completely irritable if I am the one in the lane swimming something for time and somebody stops me in the middle of a swim even if it's brief. That might be a convenient moment for them but not for me.
This depends on the ability levels involved, best with experienced swimmers.
