Public Pools!

[Freeflow]

..where I used to live I was able to hit the pool 0630 on sat AM's. It was quite busy with adults but no kids and they all swam lenghts. One morning I was first in, diving entry and 400m to do. After a couple of mins an old bloke dived in [in an otherwise empty pool] and swam straight at me glaring. I went around him, and on turning around at the end he was swimming in the same line I was using.

After that I saw him every w/e swimming along the line in the dead centre of the pool, wether he was first in, or in later he always had the same line.

I bet he is a middle lane driver as well!

[Slow plodding breast stroke whose eyes are very chlorine sensitive]

[Frog]

Handy that my pool does brat free sessions (I'm first in - hate the little perishers) and also puts lanes up for swimmers the 3 nights I go. 300 lengths per week, thinking of doing another charity swim. Really pisses me off when the school run mothers come in, wearing their flowery one piece suits (daren't show my middle dahling) get in at the shallow end, all 4 of them and swim in a row chatting about their little angels. Take up about half the pool, and the other half is lanes which the local triatholon club is currently using. One silly c0w used the steps to get in the shallow end, and promptly sat on me as I was turning. I'm not putting my comments here, it'll get me a life ban

Then we have the brats playing games and throwing balls around. Plenty of "don't get in the way of people swimming dear" just doesn't work. I didn't half kick off when I got hit in the face by a ball thrown by a brat. And yes, notdeadyet's idea of breast stroke and the 'accidental' (ha!) kick works wonders. Especially if you're thrashing up and down as I do. 150 lengths of a 25m pool in 92mins is my personal best...

[Dr T]

our club pool session is 8pm after a long day of young itchies being in there, so we get to see lots of niceties floating and lying on the bottom of the pool.
yum yum...