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 pools I grew up practicing in, and the ones today are pretty standard. I currently do some workouts in an old university pool that was built in the 40's. It is 32 yards long. The extra seven yards per lenght really drains you if you are used to a standard 25.
However, While swimming USA swimming growing up, I went to at least one, most of the time two meets per year in the summer in louisville at Lakeside Swim Club. It is amazing, and still the most unique pool I have ever been to. It was designed to look like an open quarry (it may have been a quarry at one time?). It has a 50 meter pool and a 25 meter pool that make up about 10% of the total water area. They rest is recreational swimming, raft areas, zero incline children areas, diving areas and so on. It really is beautiful. It has large cliffs surrounding the water area, and it is all natural stone. The host several masters meets and open meets per year, so if you are in the area look them up and go. I never had the best times there, I usually spent my down time floating around on a raft in the sun, instead of resting in the shade.
Ohhh! I love swimming at Lakeside! It's an open water pool racing venue!!!! It also has the retro-old club feel to it!
The pools I grew up practicing in, and the ones today are pretty standard. I currently do some workouts in an old university pool that was built in the 40's. It is 32 yards long. The extra seven yards per lenght really drains you if you are used to a standard 25.
However, While swimming USA swimming growing up, I went to at least one, most of the time two meets per year in the summer in louisville at Lakeside Swim Club. It is amazing, and still the most unique pool I have ever been to. It was designed to look like an open quarry (it may have been a quarry at one time?). It has a 50 meter pool and a 25 meter pool that make up about 10% of the total water area. They rest is recreational swimming, raft areas, zero incline children areas, diving areas and so on. It really is beautiful. It has large cliffs surrounding the water area, and it is all natural stone. The host several masters meets and open meets per year, so if you are in the area look them up and go. I never had the best times there, I usually spent my down time floating around on a raft in the sun, instead of resting in the shade.
Ohhh! I love swimming at Lakeside! It's an open water pool racing venue!!!! It also has the retro-old club feel to it!
