My pool, my rules

beela YES!

My rules:

1. Fast lane is for freestyle only.

1. Have a bit of consideration/awareness of what's going on around you and DON'T push off just as someone who is clearly faster than you is approaching to turn.

I lived in Australia for a bit and people there are on the whole much more adept swimmers than in the UK, but they're also much more considerate too.

I find 50m pools are better cos you have more space to 'lose' people who are getting in your way, but they are obviously not plentiful in this country

I just have one rule.

If you are in my lane, and swimming slightly slower than me, don't stop for a rest and then push off just ahead of me so that I have to spend the next length trying not to crash into you.

There. Its not difficult, is it?

Anyway. I shouldn't derail the thread.

I am not disabled enough yet.
Probably will be in a couple of years.
I could probably delay that by exercising in water, but cant afford it/access it atm.
It is frustrating.
My neurologist says there are other drugs/treatments I could try but I have to get worse before I can have them.
Sigh.

End I'm shocked by that price! Round here it's £27-30 in most hotels (and the council one is £25) so very little difference in price and better value at the hotel since you can swim anytime. Most also allow a carer in with a disabled person here too. Shocking how much it varies by area.

Have you tried talking to GP about accessing therapy pools? Or physio with therapy pool? Lots of areas have them.

Pools just aren't big enough to accommodate all the people who want to do with things in the water, I'd like to get back into swimming but it's just so difficult to get a good workout because you have to work around other people.
Also got much more squeamish as I've got older I feel like I'm in the bath with a load of strangers
too intimate😶

Yes. But I cant afford it.
£80 per month membership for off peak in all the hotels and clubs I have tried. I cant go alone so DH would have to pay membership too.
I had to give up work 5 years early due to my condition. My pension is tiny. I have looked into everything I can think of. No joy.

end have you looked at hotel based pools? I go to one where there is a marked lane, two accepted unmarked lanes next to it and then the other side of the pool is accepted as the messing about zone where you can can walk, float, play with DC, etc.

Can I add that if there are no lane ropes and everyone is swimming in one direction, you do not and I repeat, do not swim across them because you prefer to swim widths rather than lengths.

I left our gym because of this and the fact the pool had a polite notice about over crowding and a specific figure of how many swimmers at one time. You would have to stand by the pool and wait for someone to get out and the rules were if you had been in for 30 minutes you yielded your lane to the next person. You would stand there waiting and waiting and several times I would just give up

Just because there are more people in the fast lane than you would like doesn’t mean you can get in the slow lane and weave around people while creating massive tidal waves as you show off your prowess to the less worthy. This really annoys me.

Yes to showering before getting in. I have swam behind too many men who have clearly covered themselves in aftershave before leaving the house.

Have a wash before you get in (obviously this requires that swimming pools build showers and single sex changing rooms!)

I have a progressive neurological condition.
My consultant says the best thing for my legs would be to walk in the pool.
There is nowhere I can go to do this.
There is one pool for people with disabilities near me. I cant use that until I get a lot worse.
I cant get into my local pool because the adult only swims are so limited and people dont like walkers.
I cant drive or manage to walk far.
So I stay at home and my muscles waste away.

Love the cherry picker for walkers idea made me laugh out loud after my experience last week of the bemused woman who thought swimming a third of the lane stopping standing then swimming back to the wall again was a good use of the pool (head out almost vertical breaststroke) despite being accidentally hit twice by two different crawl swimmers and one nicely talking to her she carried on... err lifeguards plse? I moved lanes...

Do not use the only public swim lane available on a Sat morning to do 50m butterfly sets down the middle just because you are ex-club swimmer - especially when there are 3 other people all doing steady frontcrawl. I feel your pain Mr Ex-club just go to the flipping masters session to be with your people or the quiet evening session with 3 lanes..not the Saturday family session....

Bucking your pool is lovely!

I gave up swimming because of this!

Splashy one length men need their own lane. You know the ones.... the ones who do one length fast in poor crawl and then have to have a five min pause.

Nice, dry changing rooms would be good.

Bucking that looks amazing!

If there is an empty lane, get in it. Do not come and get in my lane with me

So that’s a funny One . Typically the pool has 3 lanes so if there is only one person in
Middle I will also head there . Hence leaving slow for the slow that will inevitably come along . I think people should stick to their lane and adjust to their neighbors

I hate getting in MY lane and there is a selfIsh fast man in there .

So don’t agree on that one

If there is an empty lane, get in it. Do not come and get in my lane with me. It’s ridiculous when the pool is almost empty but someone comes and gets in the fast lane with you despite there being an empty medium lane. We don’t NEED to share!

Equally, if there is a slow lane available, don’t get in the medium lane and swim head up breaststroke and complain at people swimming steady front crawl.

Make sure you have your own pile of pool bouy and kick board (our pool has more than enough) before you start. Don’t steal mine where I’ve laid out my nice little workout plan and I’m obviously using them.

The lane system is RELATIVE. Just because you normally swim in a certain lane, doesn’t mean you always do. If the blokes from the masters squad are in the fast lane, don’t try to join them unless you can actually keep up.

No lanes are for small children to be clinging onto their parents or doggy paddling.

Oh and don't use spray deodorant in a basically unventilated changing room. It causes me breathing difficulties. Either use a stick/roll on or spray it once outside.

Ok so I now have an irritation at my quiet pool.

Don't leave clothes and bags on the changing benches whilst you go swim/sauna/jacuzzi - there are at least 40 empty lockers available to use but only 6 small changing benches (only get 1 adult per bench area). Made even worse by selfish cow leaving her bags on one corner bench (there are only two corner benches and I like to change in a corner as it's easier to keep body hidden and means that there is space to get DD changed next to me).

I think a suitable punishment would be for bags to be removed and either binned or thrown in the pool.

Also if you are finished getting dressed and just want to blow dry your hair and/or put makeup on, take bags with you to the hair and make up counter, don't leave them on the only other corner bench.

Bucking, that pool is amazing. Will you get ducks in it?

A lot of this applies to cycling, strangely. Men, don't overtake me and then slow the feck down right in front of me. Also, don't give the impression that you are Chris Froome on the green light, only to slow the feck down after seven seconds, you lose.

point 1 the lanes are relative to who is there some days i might be in the fast lane other days in the medium lane