It's summer and time to swim outdoors! Show us where you swim!
We swim at the Roeland Park Aquatic Center, in Roeland Park, Kansas (a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri). The main pool is covered by an air-supported dome in the winter. In May they remove the dome for the summer.
PHOTO 1: Note the four long-course lanes. We swim long-course every Saturday during the winter, and pretty much all the time in the summer. The lanes next to the long-course lanes are short-course meters. If the ropes were turned 90 degrees, the lanes would be short-course yards.
PHOTO 2: If you looked carefully in Photo 1, you saw the bulkhead at the bottom of the long-course lanes. In this photo we're done with practice and they're raising the bulkhead before the pool opens to the public. The bulkhead drops into the bottom of the pool; it is raised by means of an air bladder inside the bulkhead.
PHOTO 3: The end of the pool, showing the 1-meter and 3-meter diving boards.
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PHOTO 4: The view of the Kansas City skyline from the top of the slides.
PHOTO 5: There are two slides - a single-person, curlicue type of slide, and a straight-down, "group" slide. They'll let 3 people go down the group slide together. In the background, the volcano is in the center of the current pool. There are inner tubes available for floating in the current.
PHOTO 6: The kiddie pool. The whale was always blue before. This year it looks like a giant Cincinnati Bengals helmet.
Most of the time we rough it in the
UT SWIM CENTER
sometimes the following Austin pools
*** Nichols 25 y,
Mabel Davis 50 LCM &
Bartholomew 50 yards (start mid July)
I go wherever the 2009 Practice Schedule tells me to
In the Atlanta, GA area:
Being a Georgia Tech alumni, I used to solo swim at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center:
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Now that I do masters, I swim with Dynamo Masters at their pool that is closer to my commute between work/home. They have a LCM outdoor pool with a fabric cover. Its really nice to swim in the summer (warm air and water stays just cool enough):
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There is also an indoor SCY pool that masters only seems to swim in during the winter. (even tho the outdoor pool is used and heated in the winter)
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I dont think there is a single pool in my state as near as nice as some of these pools. I would take a pic of mine but it would be shameful. Its an indoor 25 yd, 4 lanes, no blocks, no boards and OLD. And its one of the nicer pools in western mass. We definitely are lacking!
Laurie
I dont think there is a single pool in my state as near as nice as some of these pools. I would take a pic of mine but it would be shameful. Its an indoor 25 yd, 4 lanes, no blocks, no boards and OLD. And its one of the nicer pools in western mass. We definitely are lacking!
Laurie
Im right there with you, I swim in a "4" lane pool, more like a 3 lane pool that they decided to make into a 4 lane pool...All shallow, no blocks, no gutter system really, lane lines are pathetic at best. Air quality is really bad, but we do have a hot tub soooo that almost makes up for it. I love crap facilities!
You folks must have never seen the Williams College pool, then. Beautiful facility with an 8 lane LCM pool and bulkheads to split into two SCY pools. Huge windows along the far end by the diving boards. Swam there for 4 years after 12 years in a windowless dungeon. Can't find a photo online so you'll have to go check it out yourselves some time. There IS good swimming in Western MA!
I really like this post ... brings back memories and gives me ideas for new pools at which to create new memories:
Where I do my Masters workout:
Santa Clara is special for me in at least two ways:
I finally realized I could swim the 200 M fly the summer after my freshman year in college. I was back training with my club team in Virginia and we came out for LCM Nationals at Santa Clara. I was swimming my usual line-up (distance free, 400 IM), but my club coach said my fly looked good in my IM and that I should try a 200 fly in a time trial. I wasn't having a great meet and figured I should at least walk away with one best time. I did the 200 fly and LOVED it. It's been on my line-up ever since.
I swam my first Masters Nationals here back in 2001. I entered mainly because my Dad was going and it was relatively close to home. I've been engaged with Masters ever since.
In the Atlanta, GA area:
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Now that I do masters, I swim with Dynamo Masters at their pool that is closer to my commute between work/home. They have a LCM outdoor pool with a fabric cover. Its really nice to swim in the summer (warm air and water stays just cool enough):
In the late 90s / early 2000s, I worked for a company HQ'd in Atlanta. I was with an acquired company in Phoenix and trips to HQ were generally miserable affairs. I was able on a couple of summer trips to sneak in a workout at this pool ... I really loved the outdoor/indoor combo.
Centennial Park Pool, Wilmette, IL
This makes me ...
Mad I didn't swim during the 3 years I lived in Evanston (other than the occasional splash at an athletic club), and
Reminds me to try to do a business trip to the North Shore in the summertime (I always seem to be in Northbrook/Skokie in the depths of winter)
