To think if you wear arm bands you should not go in the medium speed lane of the pool

[dilemma456]

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I am the same as Hassled - I get very competitive with slower swimmers in the fast land and try to beat them!

Not only that but I swim breast stroke so everyone automatically assumes I will be doing girly breast stroke and not get my hair wet type thing. My breaststroke is rather strong and alot faster than the average crawler...drives me mad. On one memorable occasion I got out of the pool and demanded that the lifeguard tell the slow people to get out of the fast lane. He was 12 so too scared. Grrrr....

I get pool rage - or did back when my local pool was crowded. Now I live near a really run-down council pool with skanky changing rooms, but I've never had to share my lovely wide lane with more than one other person. Bliss! (and then fling clothes on and shower properly at home)

THe lifeguards did occasionally tell people at the old pool to shove over, but not nearly enough.

Relieved that I am not the only one that does this Clarice and Hassled! I always feel a bit guilty about feeling so competitive when I supposed to be doing some non-competitive exercise!

I particularly enjoyed doing this when I was 7 months pregnant (although I did slow down quite a lot in month 8)!

YANBU! (but I suffer terrible pool rage too). Tracey Emin wrote (on 2 full sides of A4) a fairly incomprehensible but very funny diatribe about people in her pool. Sure it must be available on net somewhere.