Lane swimming

[cyclingwith3]

Aibu to want a lane just for chilled out stress free swimming, any speed welcome? Next to the speeds, just a peace symbol.

My rage towards one guy is building so much, I actually faced him down tonight. He isn’t that fast, he is damn Uncoordinated. He won’t just overtake, nooooo. He likes to bear down on you by swimming on the wrong side of the lane as you go to push off from the end. You end up treading water as he does it from up to a third of a length away, swimming totally central or on the wrong side so you have to wait for him to turn. That’s how he overtakes you, bullying people to stay. Tonight I got annoyed and just carried on narrowly missing him. He was complaining to the lifeguard (who did nothing) after.

He intimidates everyone on purpose, you can see him do it. An arm further out as he passes, the bearing down on you. He’s not fast enough to pass you so does this, he swims a length about two strokes faster than me. I’m usually the second fastest in the lane and cope with everyone else fine as we are similar pace. He’s impossible to avoid as he pauses so even when you let him pass he pauses at the end so you overtake again, then he does the stupid swim at you at the other end of the pool so you can’t go.

I’m really close to ducking him under the water. The other 6 of us have started stopping and openly getting angry and talking because we can’t swim with any flow or relaxation with him there. If he came 15 min later it’s really quiet as well.

I have swim rage!

I understand your swim rage I’ve had it before - often feel the pressure and leave early as a result !!

Ooh I love a good lane rage rant, its a very real thing. I think I used to swim in the same gym as your chap

I now have a free membership to DL as a buddy, so very often have the pool to myself, so I now get upset if I actually have to share a swimming pool (first world problems and yes I'm an entitled git)

What a useless lifeguard! Ours would give him a good telling off. You need to gang up!

He was off last week and I squeezed 40 lengths into my son’s lesson, I managed 21 with him there. He’s getting what he wants as most people leave the lane when he arrives or soon after so it’s effective behaviour. Thanks get he is swimming a tad faster than most, but it doesn’t give him more right to be there than the rest of the lane- which at this time is pretty much exclusively mums and dads trying to get back to fitness while their kids have a lesson. Around 15 after her arrives the last lesson ends and there’s three lanes to choose from and you can normally have one to yourself

I often think that pools could make a fortune by offering a lane for exclusive use, bookable in 15 min slots at a time. I love swimming but the lane etiquette stuff does my head in! Still it does make for brain thoughts whilst ploughing up and down.

Oh to have a lane to myself!

It’s the attendants’ job to deal with this: complain to them and if still not addressed complain to the manager.

When you turn can you not swim under him and out, that will scare the shit out of him. Lol

We have one of those.

If I'm in the shallow end I stand still and make him go round me.

It doesn't solve he problem but it pisses him off and that is a good thing!

I often have a lane to myself and infact have had the whole pool to myself at times. I live in Scotland.

I had the prototype in my child's swim class, he was such a little shit, and his father just thought it made him, like, the bestest swimmer, because he was so FAST. Would complain at me because his child was not being advanced, but he was so FAST. The staff had tactfully told him why he wasn't being advanced (his technique was shit, and the child was deaf to instruction to improve). I finally lost my shit and told him very bluntly why his son was not advancing, and furthermore that my kid had been told the next time she had her leg pulled or her head hit by the little toerag, she was to do it to him straight back and then I'd bloody go and add to it.

They left the swimschool soon thereafter.

Mmmmm. That was totally self indulgent and irrelevant. Apologies! I know swim-rage - parent style, lol! Totally sympathise with you. Anyway you lot could start consistently blocking and disrupting him, en masse?!

If someone is pissing me off, especially if they are slow, I turn around mid length when they reach the end, meaning I'm half a length ahead of them.

Rude swimmers are the worst! You're definitely not BU. The lifeguard really should say something but the ones at mine never intervene with anything (I have an issue with people swimming ridiculously slowly and side-by-side in the fast lane when there's plenty of slow lanes, they're never asked to move).

My recent odd swimming experience was a man stopping me at the end of a lane and going off it because he'd seen a woman's breasts in the changing area - it's a mixed sex changing area with individual changing booths. He was so angry he was hitting the water and trying to get me to report the incident to the Council to help his complaint - really bizarre and unnerving!

If I ever win the lottery a house with a 25m pool will be my first purchase

The lifeguard/attendant should really be dealing with this. Can you get together with all the people he is intimidating and go to speak to management about him, ask if someone can come through to poolside and observe - i think this man knows what he’s doing and I don’t think he’ll stop unless he’s forced to.

I often think that pools could make a fortune by offering a lane for exclusive use, bookable in 15 min slots at a time. I love swimming but the lane etiquette stuff does my head in!

Ours does, 4 lanes half an hour slots for a 2 hour period I think on a Monday night, this is our local leisure centre not the DL pool. I tried to book a few times and it was impossible it’s so popular.