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:
Man, there's a lot of testiness out there. Why can't we each show up and follow our bliss while generally sticking to the workout the coach gives? Maybe I'm obtuse, but we don't seem to have these problems where I swim. People seem to self-organize into the right lanes, do what the coach says and, if they make modifications, coordinate with their lane mates.
patrick, I love ya man but let me clarify a few things:
1) you are always in the fast lane
2) you are always going 1st in that lane
3) people are afraid of you and stay out of your way (to be fair folks PW is a great guy...other than that Texas Longhorn thing)
The reality was VERY evident today at Cactus where the switch was made to LC and the masters only had 3 lanes....which meant 8-10 swimmers per lane.
Lane 6 (Patricks) was very orderly...he led, everyone else followed. People made room for swimmers coming in behind him, there was minimal gear abuse and no on got near anyones feet
Lane 7 is the "interesting" lane as a lot of folks who could have been in Patricks lane went here to "cruise" and others who should have been in lane 8 were using wetsuits, pull gear, fins...and every other possible thing they could find to "hang" with the lane...an all out yelling match actually took place when the coach took one guys paddles away and refused to give them back.
Lane 8 has some of the nicest people...and usually ould be orderly because they would have 2-3 lanes instead of one...so there was overflow from Lane 7...and me. In spite of my best efforts to explain some basic lane etiqutte (leave 10 apart, move over for swimmers coming in, go first if you want to wear fins on everything)...it was all ignord and we had absolute carnage...which is exactly why I was there having fun!!
Man, there's a lot of testiness out there. Why can't we each show up and follow our bliss while generally sticking to the workout the coach gives? Maybe I'm obtuse, but we don't seem to have these problems where I swim. People seem to self-organize into the right lanes, do what the coach says and, if they make modifications, coordinate with their lane mates.
patrick, I love ya man but let me clarify a few things:
1) you are always in the fast lane
2) you are always going 1st in that lane
3) people are afraid of you and stay out of your way (to be fair folks PW is a great guy...other than that Texas Longhorn thing)
The reality was VERY evident today at Cactus where the switch was made to LC and the masters only had 3 lanes....which meant 8-10 swimmers per lane.
Lane 6 (Patricks) was very orderly...he led, everyone else followed. People made room for swimmers coming in behind him, there was minimal gear abuse and no on got near anyones feet
Lane 7 is the "interesting" lane as a lot of folks who could have been in Patricks lane went here to "cruise" and others who should have been in lane 8 were using wetsuits, pull gear, fins...and every other possible thing they could find to "hang" with the lane...an all out yelling match actually took place when the coach took one guys paddles away and refused to give them back.
Lane 8 has some of the nicest people...and usually ould be orderly because they would have 2-3 lanes instead of one...so there was overflow from Lane 7...and me. In spite of my best efforts to explain some basic lane etiqutte (leave 10 apart, move over for swimmers coming in, go first if you want to wear fins on everything)...it was all ignord and we had absolute carnage...which is exactly why I was there having fun!!
