Aspire Channel Swim

[supertinks]

another 44 lengths in the pool this morning. am feeling pretty good, especially now I've just eaten my breakfast!

Pool was hideously busy when I first started swimming, but by ten to 8 it had quietened down considerably, and when I was doing my last few laps there was only one other person in my lane. It's a shame I have to be out of the pool by 8.20, otherwise I'd stay later as the pool totally empties out for the last half an hour of the session!

Am hoping Saturday morning's session will be quieter - I mean who'd want to get up at 7am on a Saturday to go swimming!

Comments

[psycho-kris.livejournal.com]

Pensioners. They are the sharks of the public pools. And they swim in schools, like sharks, too!

[supertinks.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I don't mind the pensioners, because mostly they stick to the slow lane so don't get in my way.

its the idiots doing front crawl so badly (and so slowly), who insist on doing ridiculous parodies of an Olympic turn at both ends of the pool, that really annoy me.

I came very close to actually stopping one in his tracks on Tuesday and saying "look, I don't mean to be rude, but you're really irritating me, get your lazy arse into the slow lane so I can get on with my charity swim". but I was good, I didn't say it, and he left shortly afterwards :-)

[psycho-kris.livejournal.com]

Well done. I feel your pain, the temptation must have been horrible.

Over here, we don't have a slow lane. We have a fast one, but it's mostly reserved for people swimming in clubs or are really fast. So all the other lanes (or better, the rest of the pool) is open to everyone which means playing kids and pensioners. Really irritating!

[supertinks.livejournal.com]

We have 'Adult Lane' sessions in my pool, so no kids! and there's a slow, medium and fast lane. The fast lane scares me.