Our pools were open mid-August until the surge in mid-November. They were only opened then thanks to lobbying by swim coaches and swimmers. Closed now and my local pool says it will not open before 1/1/21 at the earliest. What is happening where you are?
Up here in Canada, about 90 minutes north of Toronto, we've entered the "red" stage ... one more stage to go before lockdown. I'm fortunately far enough outside of the Toronto metro area, which is locked down, that our pools are still open, but new restrictions went into place this week that mean there are only 10 people allowed in a fitness facility. For me as a swimmer, this is kind of OK ...
Public lap swimming in our 3 community pools was already at 1 person per lane (reservation required) and we have two 6 lane pools and one 8 lane pool. So, that's still there ... but reservations do seem harder to come by.
Our ~13 person masters team, though, which only had two, one hour workouts per week, now has been split into three cohorts of 5 people each, with only 2 cohorts practicing together at any time. We haven't gotten any more pool time, though, so that means we get 4 workouts over three weeks. That's a bummer.
The local LA Fitness, where I swim mostly, has had to go to a reservation system with only 10 people in the whole club. They have this on the app and have 3 swim slots and 7 "gym" slots every hour. Reservation slots open up at 9pm two nights before the day and are gone in minutes. I now have an alarm set on my phone at 8:58pm to get me ready, as some of the gym people have figured out, though, that they can click on the 'swim reservation' link and then just use the gym. The upside is that I now seem to get the three lane pool to myself.
All in all, I still feel lucky, even if it does require some more planning.
Up here in Canada, about 90 minutes north of Toronto, we've entered the "red" stage ... one more stage to go before lockdown. I'm fortunately far enough outside of the Toronto metro area, which is locked down, that our pools are still open, but new restrictions went into place this week that mean there are only 10 people allowed in a fitness facility. For me as a swimmer, this is kind of OK ...
Public lap swimming in our 3 community pools was already at 1 person per lane (reservation required) and we have two 6 lane pools and one 8 lane pool. So, that's still there ... but reservations do seem harder to come by.
Our ~13 person masters team, though, which only had two, one hour workouts per week, now has been split into three cohorts of 5 people each, with only 2 cohorts practicing together at any time. We haven't gotten any more pool time, though, so that means we get 4 workouts over three weeks. That's a bummer.
The local LA Fitness, where I swim mostly, has had to go to a reservation system with only 10 people in the whole club. They have this on the app and have 3 swim slots and 7 "gym" slots every hour. Reservation slots open up at 9pm two nights before the day and are gone in minutes. I now have an alarm set on my phone at 8:58pm to get me ready, as some of the gym people have figured out, though, that they can click on the 'swim reservation' link and then just use the gym. The upside is that I now seem to get the three lane pool to myself.
All in all, I still feel lucky, even if it does require some more planning.
