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Suppose you went to the swimming baths at a time when the shallow end was roped off for swimming lessons for the wee uns.
Suppose also that perhaps 7 or 8 folk were in the rest of the pool happily doing widths, since lengths were impractical due to the aforementioned enclosure.
Would you just join in with the rest doing widths, or display a furious determination to still do lengths even though this meant repeated collisions with other swimmers, some of whom might have been mischievously timing their pace 🙂
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Just let the wee uns have their space ...
In my early teen me and mates used to swim in our underwear ... I mean Y front because we thought everyone was wearing underwear until we got the weird look ... 😆 (it was the first public swimming pool in Borneo - think Olympic size)
Float a Mersey Trout in there and see how they like it.
Still do nearly a length as its further or not bother until a length was possible
Float a Mersey Trout in there and see how they like it.
Genuinely lol'ing
I would have done so CFH, only I feared that I might embarrass myself trying to clamber down from the spectators gallery.
It's all about getting your trajectory right if you're in the gallery.
Don't you like a challenge?
swim diagonals that way everyone loses equally
seriously don't start me ranting on swimming lane etiquette.
How wide was the pool. Doing breaststroke I used to get 1 or two arm strokes in before I hit the far wall doing widths and would need to turn. I'd get dizzy so would prefer to use the longer length.
Doing widths would be awful, you'd get a push off he side 1 perhaps 2 strokes in then turn again.
I wouldn't bother personally not worth the effort of getting changed. Either go back at a different time or go to another pool.
Doing widths would be awful, you'd get a push off he side 1 perhaps 2 strokes in then turn again.
^ This describes a length perfectly. If you happen to swim in the 'pool' at Presteigne. Luckily it's so murky it's often a surprise when you hit the far wall so it spices things up.
Pop your thong trunks on, a resplendent forest of clock springs either side, lots of bending and stretching poolside and you will soon have it all to yourself 😉
Suppose you went to the swimming baths at a time when the shallow end was roped off for swimming lessons for the [b]wee uns[/b].
Pop your thong trunks on, a resplendent forest of clock springs either side, lots of bending and stretching poolside and you will soon have [s]it[/s] [b]a cell[/b] all to yourself
Corrected
Float a Mersey Trout in there and see how they like it.
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Float a Mersey Trout in there and see how they like it.
Sounds a great plan, recruit a couple of mates and it could end up looking like a Canadian logging farm!
I've said this a thousand times- I've no swimming pool or high street shopping presence. People just walk through me/swim into me.
At our local baths a few weeks ago I stopped a bloke and his mate who were swimming the circumference of the pool (yes) against the flow of people.
I got the life guard involved and said to him put some ropes in please like you normally do- that'll stop these wallies.
A year or so back I was happily swimming up and down with others when a bloke in his 60's dived in and swam straight at me physically shoving me sideways. I was taken aback. Stopped and carried on- again he swam at me and pushed me out of the way so I stood up and stopped him and said what are you doing/calm down? He ignored me and swam round. So afterwards I was talking to the female life guard and she said 'oh you've met Burt then, we've stopped telling him off as he simply tells us to foxtrot oscar'. Right.
The Life Guard is there to save people but also enforce common sense.
This reminded me overnight, that my crew on sailing dinghy had to remove a Mersey trout that was slopping round the bottom of our boat when we sailed on the Mersey one day.... 😯
Aaahhhhh, the 1990's water quality..
Watching the interactions between various speeds of swimmers restricted to a single lane in my local pool is hilarious. Some of them are worse than ramblers. 🙂
Float a Mersey Trout in there and see how they like it.
pmsl!
I just found it baffling that this chap insisted on doing lengths (or 75% of a length) when everybody else was quite happily doing widths due to the lessons. A couple of lads were clearly timing their lengths to obstruct him, to both their and my amusement 🙂
hora, thats what elbows are for....