Territorial dispute in swimming pool

Eh? I didn't say we had a club pool.
I said that clubs book sessions in the public pool. Lane swimming is for, well lane swimming, not doing a club session where you think you are #1 priority. Everyone at our local pool finds that really annoying and the lifguards would remind anyone doing this that it's a public lane swimming session, where nobody is more important.

So do I. I also think there are a number of Reddit migrants that come on here to wind us up.

I really don’t understand the issue here - he went to your lane out of habit, saw you were using it and moved. There wasn’t a dispute

You were very lucky to have a club pool and booked sessions.

Men should have their own pools . They’re a bloody nuisance with their over zealous splashing and puffing. They never last long though

I could have written your post about the many occasions when male swimmers have tried to force me to move. However this is more, not a non-event, as he swam underneath OP. That’s the crunch, particularly if she was doing breast stroke. Territorial Man, like the goon who did exactly the same to me a month ago, could be accused of “up skirting” albeit without a device. Identify him and make a complaint OP.

@Floormops I don't mean to be rude, but it is actually really annoying for the lane swimmers when a club swimmer tries to do a training session in there alongside them. Club swimmers need to be training at actual separate club sessions where lanes are specifically booked for them. I say this as the parent of an ex-club swimmer, who easily outswam the average adult at a fairly young age (in technique and speed).

The ones on here who don’t get it are probably the faffers who swim slow in the fast lane and are oblivious I meet them at my pool too
He was rude no need to go in your lane it really annoys me when men and it’s usually men just think they can push you out your lane

Just push off them.

I used to take my DD to our local pool before school when she was training for national championships. She would do her 100 lengths in the fast lane while I did 20 - 30 in the slow lane.
The behaviour of men trying to pass/obstruct/annoy my DD in the fast lane was disgusting. So rude and childish. She was far and away the fastest swimmer in there, I had to get special permission to allow her to train at that time as she was under 18. (This was a battle in itself).
Honestly there is so much bad behaviour in swimming pools.
IME the life guards just stand around chatting.

Because it’s like having a favourite spot on the sofa! Or favourite table in a coffee shop.

That’s his favourite lane. Didn’t work for him or you when you were innit so he moved - once you weren’t in it he went there.

I can't see the problem.
Man moved back into his preferred lane after you left - that is fine.
If there had been more swimmers in every lane some might have swam underneath slower people every lap.

I don't see a problem.
Man swam unerneath you so not to upset your swimming and then chose another lane while you were swimming. He problem solved for himself and caused you no harm.

So what if he moved back into lane 2 after you got out. None of your concern. He prefers it for whatever reason.

Too slow? Don't be silly.

In an otherwise empty swimming pool, and at one point he was swimming under OP ?

I knew before l opened this it would be a man doing these behaviours

He probably didn't see you which is why he looked surprised?

Yes I think you're right and he initially expected you to move lanes, when you didn't, OK he moved to lane 3 but otherwise why would he even have got into your lane? Not as pushy as some people (men) but he thought he'd give it a try. Sometimes you have to be there.

It's not 'her' lane - for all we know, she was in the wrong speed lane.

Indeed. It can be carnage at my local - a fast lane, a slow lane, an area for kids swimming lessons and then an open bit! We get people too slow for the fast lane, too slow for the even the slow lane, too fast for the slow lane, and a bunch of rubber ducks floating into both lanes from the toddlers swimming class 😂

I'm surprised most people been so sanguine about this, I think it's really weird behaviour. There's 3 empty lanes but he picks OP's lane? Then swims underneath her when presumably that would have taken some planning rather than just ducking under the rope to the next lane.

It's always a man. Some men are complete arseholes in the pool. I've been sworn at, swum into and swum under by men because I've been swimming where they want to swim. The women (and most of the men) are all polite and considerate of other swimmers. FWIW the lifeguards are well aware that some men are dicks in the pool and in my experience will speak to them if you highlight the issue.

Your conclusion is fine as you accept you could be wrong.

This. It's like you don't sit next to someone on the bus if there are other empty seats available.

God, yes. There's so many men who bomb it for 2 lengths, then spread out and clog up the ends so I can't push off. They stay there for the rest of my session. Just staring off into the distance, oblivious.