Almost going to give up on my Saturday morning swim workouts. The Y was a zoo again this morning. 2 lanes were swim lessons and I have to say the guy that teaches that group is amazing with the kids. He even makes butterfly (the stroke from hell) look fun.
Then we have 4 lanes of lap swim….. Right…… You would think the average adult would know that “lap swim” means you swim to the far wall, turn around, swim back, and repeat. Nope. 10 people sharing 4 lanes. OK, that works if everyone will f’ing swim laps. Out of 10 people 3 of us wanted to actually get a work out in. For the other 7 it means swim (barely) to the far wall, grab onto it, catch ones breath for at least 5 minutes, slowly swim back, catch breath, wait 4-5 minutes and repeat. Oh, the hanging on the wall, we can’t do that off to the sides of the lane, we have to do it right in the middle.
The three of us swimming laps actually asked the others if we could share a lane off to one side and if they could share the other 4 lanes. Nope, they wanted to stay where they were at.
I don’t always do flip turns, but, today, I think we had all had enough. At least 5 out of the 7 wall hangers got kicked and pretty seriously splashed. And I do not apologize. I think the lifeguard may have gotten soaked a few times as well. I saw her sputtering a little. Ooops. Perhaps the wall hangers need to use some common sense and get out of the way.
The guy teaching the swim lessons saw what was happening and was laughing his ass off. As I was leaving he told me that he couldn’t believe that they didn’t have the common sense to let us share a lane.