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.
(Continued in next post... I can't put all of the photos into one post.)
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That's a beautiful pool, Anna Lea. You are so lucky to be able to swim in such lovely surroundings. That water looks so clear and refreshing. Makes me want to dive in.
I don't want to post a picture of my pool now. Next to that it is going to look so dingy! I swim in an indoor 25m pool. It's not particularly pretty at all, but it serves its purpose. It has a spa complex attached to it with jacuzzis and saunas. Those are great after a hard workout. A lot of the pools in Taiwan are indoors. Most people would think this strange for a place that has such a hot climate. However, they are built like this, not to keep the heat in, but rather to keep it out!
That's a beautiful pool, Anna Lea. You are so lucky to be able to swim in such lovely surroundings. That water looks so clear and refreshing. Makes me want to dive in.
I don't want to post a picture of my pool now. Next to that it is going to look so dingy! I swim in an indoor 25m pool. It's not particularly pretty at all, but it serves its purpose. It has a spa complex attached to it with jacuzzis and saunas. Those are great after a hard workout. A lot of the pools in Taiwan are indoors. Most people would think this strange for a place that has such a hot climate. However, they are built like this, not to keep the heat in, but rather to keep it out!
