I thought of this topic while walking back to my car after practice on Friday. Can you think of anything that (possibly) makes your pool or its setting unique? Here's my example: there's a fee for parking on campus at the U of Washington, so I park on the street in neighborhood just off campus when I swim there. The walk between the car and the pool involves crossing a drawbridge, so sometimes after practice we are delayed for a few minutes while the drawbridge is up!
The unhealthy high water temp, and the surly indifference of the facility staff.
Is that really unique?
How about the murky water *possibly* from the aqua-zumba folks who wear shoes into the pool? (probably not unique either)
My pool is outdoors and its deck is sunken about 20 to 25 feet below the elevation for the rest of the campus. So when you're walking by the diving tower, you're just about at its halfway point. The diving well and the main pool are bordered by large sinking cement steps on either side, which act as seating. The pool is completely surrounded by athletics facility buildings.
The other pool I use, at San Jose State, is slightly longer than 50m. It's also dirty as heck, but what I like about it is they keep it at a slightly colder temp than my main pool.
My pool is built on top of a sewage treatment plant! The plant itself was built out over the Hudson River, which means the pool sits on "land" that didn't exist 20 years ago.
Because of weight constraints, the 50M pool is a uniform 4ft in depth. When it first opened there were meets there, and you had to be careful not to go too deep on the dives (or backstroke starts). Eventually they took out the starting blocks and stopped having meets, which was probably wise.
en.wikipedia.org/.../Riverbank_State_Park
I would love to swim in that pool this summer, when I am in NYC. I guess what makes my pool special is that it was the rival pool for my prep school growing up. We went there every other year for the big duel meet. Now, I swim there several times a week with the coach that is the coach that I use to swim against.
My pool is 6 lane x 25 yards, 3 1/2 feet at the shallow end to 12 feet at the deep end. So far...it's unique from everyone else's pools described above because it's close to NORMAL!! :D The truly unique part is the admission cost. The high school doesn't charge us to use it during the school year...which is a big plus. One reason I can swim. :)
Nothing funny about my pool except it the home pool for the school I teach at. It's always fun to watch their expressions when they realize that guy in the speedo on the "old people team" is their pre-cal teacher. The unintentional awkwardness on their part that ensues is hilarious. I had a guy that wouldn't look me in the eye for the entire 1st semester.
