pool getting more crowded?

[Becky]

I've noticed that, for the past couple of weeks, the pool has been more crowded than when I started swimming in December. Is this normal, now that tri season is getting closer? I'm not complaining (much)....just trying to understand what is typical.

[Veronica]

I've started swimming again since it's time to start thinking about all three events. Our pools are outside so I really don't like swimming when it's in the 40s.

Veronica

[Becky]

Thanks, V. Sort of what I thought was going on.

I'm not the most confident swimmer, and even more so when practicing new stuff like flip turns, so this new development has me a little uncertain. Especially when the triathlete with whom I'm sharing a lane is blasting out 100s in about a minute each.

[Veronica]

I stopped doing flip turns when I started doing tris. You can't do a flip turn in the middle of a river or a lake.

But I also swim on my own - not with a Masters group. If I were with others, I'd probably keep doing them. And if I did any tris in with a pool swim.

Just remember, you have as much right to be there as anyone else.

Veronica

[Becky]

Flip turns are one of those silly things that I really have no need to learn, but want to master just to say that I can.

Thanks

[HillSlugger]

I can count all the triathletes at my pool on one hand with fingers left over.

[Melalvai]

Flip turns are one of those silly things that I really have no need to learn, but want to master just to say that I can.

That's why I learned them. I know I don't need them for the triathlon out at the lake but swimmers who do flip turns look (to me) like they know what they are doing. Now that I've learned them (I won't say "mastered" them) I guess they make me look competent because I heard that someone described me as an "amazing" swimmer-lol!!