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.)
When at home we split time between BEST & Sun Devil Masters (ASU)...both still have their water temp in the 79 degree range which is nice this time of year!
OK, I finally had something better than a nearly worthless cell phone camera with me at the pool yesterday, so here's Colman Pool in West Seattle. How many other pools out there can you take a ferry to?
There are a few other interesting things about the pool. For example, its at least partially filled with salt water from Puget Sound (the pool is literally adjacent to the Sound) and getting to the pool requires about a ten minute walk from the parking lot. It's a beautiful walk, though.
Geesh,
You can a workout from the walk based on Google Maps. But, it has a really nice view.
OK, I finally had something better than a nearly worthless cell phone camera with me at the pool yesterday, so here's Colman Pool in West Seattle. How many other pools out there can you take a ferry to?
There are a few other interesting things about the pool. For example, its at least partially filled with salt water from Puget Sound (the pool is literally adjacent to the Sound) and getting to the pool requires about a ten minute walk from the parking lot. It's a beautiful walk, though.
I have swam all over america and there is no nicer pool than Coleman. Big, salty, cold, and with the most spectacular view in the US. Just unbelievable.
This is the view from the pool at the Jackson Community Center in Jackson, WY, where I swam while I was on vacation. I'd venture this is one of the better views out there as well!
I swam at the pool in Jackson when I was there in February. Nice facility! Avon, CO (at the base of Beaver Creek) has a similar rec center as does Whistler, BC. I like to get in a workout or two when I'm on a ski trip otherwise I invariably feel like crap when I get back in the pool at home.
P.S. in case anyone is wondering the ski area visible in that photo is the town hill--Snow King, not Jackson Hole Mountain Resort which is about a 12 mile drive from the town of Jackson.
Geesh,
You can a workout from the walk based on Google Maps. But, it has a really nice view.
Not to mention there's a steep hill between the beach area where the pool is and the parking lots. It's always fun climbing that when you're already dead from the swimming workout.
