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 was hoping when schools started back that many kids/adults would not not going to pools. Well - it seems "remote learning" will be the norm for a while now. Maybe wnen they are at home the gym/pools will be more open and prepared for me to chance it once again.
I really don't want to complain, b/c I desperately need to swim and am so unbelievably happy to finally find an outdoor pool! My plan is to at least swim for a month, then stay out of the pool until the vaccine comes out (not too confident about indoor pools). I asked all the appropriate questions about safety precautions before joining the outdoor pool. I was told there was no sharing of lanes except for married folks. (IMO, silly rule, and how do they prove that?)
They have a temperature stand when you enter, but no one takes your temperature. I've never seen anyone wipe down chairs or other equipment. So far, each day, most people are sharing lanes. I've been asked 2x to share and said that I didn't want to. This guy challenged me and was very rude. If I wasn't so desperate to swim, I'd cancel my membership. I just am not ready to share a lane. I had surgery in March, and recovery was long and difficult, and easing back into the world has been slow. I resent having to defend myself.
Well -- my "back into the pool" timing is off! When cleaning the back trees/forest, I managed to work thru an unknown area of poison Ivy that has me doing visits to the E R and doctor with arms, abdomen & legs into full blister distress for 2 weeks now! All poison ivy/oak does not look like a leaf of 3 and mitten shaped!!!
Oh, orca, that's terrible, although when i catch poison ivy (not nearly like what you have), the chlorine/salt water dries it up really fast. But I don't blister. Are you taking anything for it?
Prednisone for 2 weeks ,an anti biotic , benadryl tabs 2-3 at night to try to sleep and last night an Ambine to knock my self out --- that did not do it! I am now starting to peal, like really bad sunburn. When this is subsiding , I might try the pool to "scour" my wretched body, altho not the best thought to other swimmers!
I am liking the feeling to a 1,000 ants and 1,000 flys all attacking my arms, legs and abdomen at the same time ALL DAY & NIGHT!!
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).
In Tallahassee we have had zero cases of any swimmers getting CoVid since we got back in on May 8th. One person per lane, you have to reserve the lane/time. Swim team has two kids per lane. 2 city pools, both outside. The water is lovely. No locker room use allowed. No synchro, no noodles.
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