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!
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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 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.
