strange experiences when swimming

[alpinerabbit]

- the very large elderly gentleman who with great precision and impressive slowness swims back and forth in the precise middle of the swimmers lanes, forcing everyone else to swim in circles around him

ugh, yep, here they preferentially swim german backstroke (that looks like a frog swimming on his back)

- the cute so-much-in-love couple in their 40s, who stop to flirt and splash around and lie down, completely blocking all the lanes and oblivious to the swimmers trying to pass without grabbing a foot

In our pools, it gets even better. Type 1 and 2 do their thing in the "tempo" lane (which lately I have felt qualified to swim in)

- the athletic serious dude wearing goggles and a HRM who does all kinds of drills and swims very energetically - but not very fast

or using his kickboard in the tempo lane for drills. Oh how I would like to point out the technique errors to those kind of guys....


Did I mention even in our partner club's practice, where I went a number of times last fall, that old guy actually collided with me - he was swimming the circle the wrong way round. and he was surprised... Then again he's the guy who somehow tethers his reading glasses outside his goggles so he can see the workout.