Had a weird thing happen at practice today. I was finishing my swim with a set of 25yd butterfly to work on my stroke. I had the lane to myself, and for a time, both lanes to either side were empty. About midway through my set, an older woman got into the lane next to me and started swimming. Ordinarily I'd pay it no mind, but at one point when I was resting she turned to me and said "you know, it's really hard for me to swim backstroke when you're swimming like that, you're a real jerk!"
When she began her statement, I thought she was going to make some kind of joking comment. But as she finished it, I realized she was serious, and it kinda caught me off guard. Since the lane on the other side was open, I moved over a lane so as not to disturb her, and tried to apologize when she was at the end of the lane, but she just curtly replied "fine" and went on about her swim.
So my question is this, does swimming butterfly make me a jerk? I'm not going to stop swimming fly, but I'm just curious if anyone else has run afoul of other swimmers getting bent out of shape in this manner. To summarize, we both were in separate lanes (6ft wide), and she was swimming, not water walking. I wonder if Phelps runs into these problems :D
Hi Funky Fish! First of all I want to say to are a gentleman! This woman was rude to you and you reacted politely and tried to help her situation. You did way more than you needed to do.
I have noticed in adult sport activities that usually the slow/novice type people expect everyone else to adjust to their agenda. This even happens in swim practice on our team. If a group is in the middle of a pre-designed set and a new person jumps in the lane and doesn't want to do the workout they expect the whole lane to adjust to their lap pace and hold their repeats till they are out of the way. This makes me crazy and yet it happened in almost every scheduled workout we had for nationals. :argue:
Hi Funky Fish! First of all I want to say to are a gentleman! This woman was rude to you and you reacted politely and tried to help her situation. You did way more than you needed to do.
I have noticed in adult sport activities that usually the slow/novice type people expect everyone else to adjust to their agenda. This even happens in swim practice on our team. If a group is in the middle of a pre-designed set and a new person jumps in the lane and doesn't want to do the workout they expect the whole lane to adjust to their lap pace and hold their repeats till they are out of the way. This makes me crazy and yet it happened in almost every scheduled workout we had for nationals. :argue:
