i swim in the medium to slower lanes at a very competitive masters team workouts in san diego, and am usually asked to slide down to slower lanes when the equal ability swimmers (vs triathletes) show up.
the funny thing is most of these swimmers use a pull bouy or fins for the WHOLE workout. i think it's a ego thing in la-la land.
i would like to swim with people who can push me harder, instead of down in the last slowest lane. should i just chalk it up to normal swimmers protocal? or find another team? :confused:
My team, for the most part, does the sets as written. We have one guy who uses paddles for everything, but for the most part people aren't switching things up--at least not in the lanes I swim in. That said, I don't have a problem with people doing their own thing. But I do think the onus is on them to stay out of the way of the swimmers who ARE doing the written workout.
This describes our team pretty well. Sometimes someone has a shoulder issue and is either kicking the whole workout or swimming with fins, emphasis legs. They might move down a lane if need be. If you are the one in the lane doing something different, then it's really important to be aware of others and stay out of the way.
I've actually had a coach assign 2 different intervals to 1 lane, when the speed difference was big. The pool was too crowded to give someone a single lane, so 2 of us where on a slower interval and 1 was on a faster interval. It was a set of 100's and 200's free and we made it work - sometimes the superfast guy flipped before the wall to avoid passing us. And I am sure that the coach put superfast guy with 2 chicks who were smaller to make that work more easily. Not common, but with common sense you can make things work many different ways.
My team, for the most part, does the sets as written. We have one guy who uses paddles for everything, but for the most part people aren't switching things up--at least not in the lanes I swim in. That said, I don't have a problem with people doing their own thing. But I do think the onus is on them to stay out of the way of the swimmers who ARE doing the written workout.
This describes our team pretty well. Sometimes someone has a shoulder issue and is either kicking the whole workout or swimming with fins, emphasis legs. They might move down a lane if need be. If you are the one in the lane doing something different, then it's really important to be aware of others and stay out of the way.
I've actually had a coach assign 2 different intervals to 1 lane, when the speed difference was big. The pool was too crowded to give someone a single lane, so 2 of us where on a slower interval and 1 was on a faster interval. It was a set of 100's and 200's free and we made it work - sometimes the superfast guy flipped before the wall to avoid passing us. And I am sure that the coach put superfast guy with 2 chicks who were smaller to make that work more easily. Not common, but with common sense you can make things work many different ways.
