Sometimes I see slow lap swimmers turn around quite a distance before they reach the end of the pool so that they can always continue without stop ahead of whoever has been waiting at the end to start. So the picture is like this: as they approach the end, see someone is about to start, right away they make a U-turn and swim back. Since they are slow (a faster swimmer should hardly cause any inconvenience), the person waiting would eventually catch up and have to pass him/her. So their turning around in the middle really does nothing but causing inconvenience for both others and themselves, and unnecessary potential for accidents. What do you think and what would you do in such cases?
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There is one dude at the Y who will reverse circle swim when he sees people waiting simply to discourage entrants. I always jump in his lane when I see that.
I think I swam with him once at the Y. He was swimming down the middle of the pool, a few people including myself came on to the deck, so he started swimming reverse circle. Most people didn't know what to do...I just jumped in his lane and went...I don't think he was too happy
There is one dude at the Y who will reverse circle swim when he sees people waiting simply to discourage entrants. I always jump in his lane when I see that.
I think I swam with him once at the Y. He was swimming down the middle of the pool, a few people including myself came on to the deck, so he started swimming reverse circle. Most people didn't know what to do...I just jumped in his lane and went...I don't think he was too happy
