I finally found an outdoor pool at a nearby gym that also has an indoor pool. I'm so close to signing up, yet nervous. OTOH, I swam in mid-March, when all gyms had to close that evening. Our state was #2 in the nation with COVID cases. We are at an all time low, yet I still feel apprehensive. BTW, the pool is not busy, despite a heat wave all summer, which makes me think that people are fearful. (and fitness center confirmed that)
Would love to hear from swimmers who've been swimming in outdoor/indoor pools. I know the data about chlorine killing the virus, but would feel better knowing swimmers have stayed COVID free.
I've swum indoors at an LA Fitness -- four-lane pool with limits of one person per lane and limited locker room use. The place has actually been such a ghost town compared to pre-COVID that I have the pool to myself most of the time.
I've also swum at Y pools, indoor and out. Locker rooms are off limits, and you must reserve a time slot, but the Y's have allowed lane sharing - even indoors. I've had to share once, and I didn't mind. If we were both on the wall at the same time, we both made sure we weren't facing each other.
I've taken all of the precautions of wearing a mask until I'm in the water and putting one back on upon getting out. I've minimized my time in the locker room, and in all of my swims since the beginning of June (about 5 per week), I've only encountered one person who I thought was being sloppy about the whole thing and that was in the LA Fitness locker room - no mask, came in and sat very close to where I was changing, breathing hard, etc.
So far, I've had no issues with swimming. I have greater concerns about coming and going from my apartment building where my millennial neighbors aren't masking up in the elevator (not a slam on the generation as a whole, just an observation as to whose wearing masks and who isn't here).
I've swum indoors at an LA Fitness -- four-lane pool with limits of one person per lane and limited locker room use. The place has actually been such a ghost town compared to pre-COVID that I have the pool to myself most of the time.
I've also swum at Y pools, indoor and out. Locker rooms are off limits, and you must reserve a time slot, but the Y's have allowed lane sharing - even indoors. I've had to share once, and I didn't mind. If we were both on the wall at the same time, we both made sure we weren't facing each other.
I've taken all of the precautions of wearing a mask until I'm in the water and putting one back on upon getting out. I've minimized my time in the locker room, and in all of my swims since the beginning of June (about 5 per week), I've only encountered one person who I thought was being sloppy about the whole thing and that was in the LA Fitness locker room - no mask, came in and sat very close to where I was changing, breathing hard, etc.
So far, I've had no issues with swimming. I have greater concerns about coming and going from my apartment building where my millennial neighbors aren't masking up in the elevator (not a slam on the generation as a whole, just an observation as to whose wearing masks and who isn't here).
