In Great Britain most pools have three lanes: fast lane(for free style), medium lane and slow lane.
Here in Germany pools aren't divided at all. People just swim anyway and anywhere they want to which makes it impossible to do proper work outs.
I had to join a private gym with a pool in order to do my work outs because public pools are a drag in Germany.
How are most public pools in the US? Do they all have a fast, medium and slow lane or does it depend?
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Could you persuade them to rope off just one lane? I swam at a pool in Munich that had just the one lane
I used to do that and sometimes they actually put up a lane. The private pool of the gym I go to is actually 22 meters which is about 25 yards. It is half empty most of the time and although there are no lanes I always have space. Sometimes I'm the only one in the pool so I don't go to public pools anymore.
Oh Lui - as a German, I can truly say the German pools are just horrible for lap swimming.
It's so "un-German" - usually anything to make things more organized gets studied by eight different groups and then implemented with 18 different rules....
I don't get it either. I just lived in Bolivia for 5 years which is the poorest country of South America and the least organized(cars don't even stop at a red traffic light) but their pools were better organized than any pool in Germany.
Could you persuade them to rope off just one lane? I swam at a pool in Munich that had just the one lane
I used to do that and sometimes they actually put up a lane. The private pool of the gym I go to is actually 22 meters which is about 25 yards. It is half empty most of the time and although there are no lanes I always have space. Sometimes I'm the only one in the pool so I don't go to public pools anymore.
Oh Lui - as a German, I can truly say the German pools are just horrible for lap swimming.
It's so "un-German" - usually anything to make things more organized gets studied by eight different groups and then implemented with 18 different rules....
I don't get it either. I just lived in Bolivia for 5 years which is the poorest country of South America and the least organized(cars don't even stop at a red traffic light) but their pools were better organized than any pool in Germany.
