Glad you had a great swim, Lise. The thing that made my swim so frustrating was that the lifeguards had set the pool up so poorly for the number and type of swimmers. Why not have a double-wide slow lane for people who can't swim a length but seem hell-bent on trying, a single medium lane for the folks who can manage 25m, even if it does take them an hour, and a single lane marked "tlkiwi"???
I will concede, a number of the folk there may not have been able to read English very well (there are a few multi-lingual signs in the place, but not all of them for some reason), but mostly it was poor management and poor enforcement by the guards; it is a saftey issue, after all.
Drink coffee and do stupid things faster with more energy.