This is really annoying to me, but why does it seem the first option for most rec swimmers is to split the lane when there are 2 swimmers. I always say we should swim circle if I am in the lane and someone else is coming in, but if I am coming in the person usually wants to split the lane. It is so unnatural to be swimming on the left side of the lane.
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I was splitting a lane with another person one morning when a lady came into our lane and insisted we circle. I said fine then noticed that there was a lane next to us with only one swimmer. I made the recommendation that she mosey over to the other lane and split with that person, saving us the trouble of ruining our workouts. She refused and told me to go over. :mad:Why insist on circle swimming when you could split, she clearly couldn't hang with our lane. A long story short she told on me to the lifeguards(they told me she wouldn't have been able to keep pace) and stormed out of the pool. 15 minutes later she came back and tried to get in again, fed up and already out of rhythm and focus I ended my workout short and told her she could have the lane. Without saying anything she stormed away and never came back. The next couple of days it just so happened that her and I shared a lane, well that was when I insisted on doing fly and kick sets. There is no point in circle swimming if there are only 2 to a lane and you are doing different workouts.
I was splitting a lane with another person one morning when a lady came into our lane and insisted we circle. I said fine then noticed that there was a lane next to us with only one swimmer. I made the recommendation that she mosey over to the other lane and split with that person, saving us the trouble of ruining our workouts. She refused and told me to go over. :mad:Why insist on circle swimming when you could split, she clearly couldn't hang with our lane. A long story short she told on me to the lifeguards(they told me she wouldn't have been able to keep pace) and stormed out of the pool. 15 minutes later she came back and tried to get in again, fed up and already out of rhythm and focus I ended my workout short and told her she could have the lane. Without saying anything she stormed away and never came back. The next couple of days it just so happened that her and I shared a lane, well that was when I insisted on doing fly and kick sets. There is no point in circle swimming if there are only 2 to a lane and you are doing different workouts.
