The Joy of Swimming at the Y
I swim at the YMCA, it has an indoor pool and is great because the pool opens at 530 in the morning. This lets me get up early and get a swim workout done before the pull of distractions starts for the day. The only problem with this is that I have to get up at 5 in the morning and for some reason I have a hard time telling myself and getting myself to fall asleep before midnight.
For the past couple of days I have been able to pull it off. I have been getting to bed by about 10pm and getting up at 5 wide and awake. I get to the pool and get my swim in.
I went this past weekend, I started my swim and the life guard came over and put up signs in front of the lanes saying, lessons, blue lane, green lane, circle swim. There were 4 of us that had started our normal lap swim when we were informed by the guard that the other lanes would be closed and that we would have to share the circle lane. This is not that big of a deal in fact I prefer it helps semi simulate open water swim and swimming near people.
After about 20 min of circling around other people I took a small break and notice that there are 4 full size men swimming in 1 lane and 5 other lanes are completely empty with no one standing on the deck. I got into an empty lane and began to swim, when I got to the end of the pool the guard informed me that the lane was closed for lessons. I looked around perplexed and asked what lessons. I was then told that if I did not get into the circle lane I would be asked to leave.
Obviously I had run into a napoleon, some 17 year old kid getting off on telling someone what to do. Me being the good cattle that I am I got back in the circle lane and finished my workout.
5 min before I left the pool after an hour in it people showed up for the lessons.
O well I still got my workout in and that’s all that matters!
Bob
For the past couple of days I have been able to pull it off. I have been getting to bed by about 10pm and getting up at 5 wide and awake. I get to the pool and get my swim in.
I went this past weekend, I started my swim and the life guard came over and put up signs in front of the lanes saying, lessons, blue lane, green lane, circle swim. There were 4 of us that had started our normal lap swim when we were informed by the guard that the other lanes would be closed and that we would have to share the circle lane. This is not that big of a deal in fact I prefer it helps semi simulate open water swim and swimming near people.
After about 20 min of circling around other people I took a small break and notice that there are 4 full size men swimming in 1 lane and 5 other lanes are completely empty with no one standing on the deck. I got into an empty lane and began to swim, when I got to the end of the pool the guard informed me that the lane was closed for lessons. I looked around perplexed and asked what lessons. I was then told that if I did not get into the circle lane I would be asked to leave.
Obviously I had run into a napoleon, some 17 year old kid getting off on telling someone what to do. Me being the good cattle that I am I got back in the circle lane and finished my workout.
5 min before I left the pool after an hour in it people showed up for the lessons.
O well I still got my workout in and that’s all that matters!
Bob
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