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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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!
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!
