Best municipal pools

(Dennis Selwa) said:

San Diego has an excellent city pool system .Theres got to be 12 to 15 pools. Any day of the week
at nearly any time up from 5:30 AM to 8 PM (weekends and holidays a bit tighter) I can find
somewhere to swim all year round. I was planning to move inland but the source of swimming holes
dried up out there. Are there any similar pool systems?

Well, I don't suppose you'll be coming here, but in Reykjavik (pop ~ 100,000), we have 7 heated
outdoor pools, 1 50m and 6 25m, open 6:45 - 22:00 all year around (close 20:00 weekends) with hot
pots, water slides, marked off swimming lanes and everything. Read 'em and weep.
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Helgi Briem hbriem AT simnet DOT is

Excuse the munged address. My last e-mail address was killed by spammers.

Helgi, Thats sounds like the perfect pool arangement. The twelve pools we have serve a couple
million people. Only about a third of the time I have to share a lane though. But if I leave San
Diego I probably won't have that luxury. I can understand how expensive pools are to maintain and
how small citys can't justify the expense (though I wish they would). But having free geothermal
heat reduces a major expense in pool costs!
!

Dennis

Hi Helgi.

Do you know Lara Bjargardottir? She's a terrific young swimmer from Reykjavik, who is currently a
sophomore at the University of California Irvine. She was the Big West Conference champion in the
200 IM and set a number of UCI school records. Are there other competitive swimmers at her elite
level in Iceland?

- Larry

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Quoted message said:

San Diego has an excellent city pool system .Theres got to be 12 to 15 pools. Any day of the week
at nearly any time up from 5:30 AM to 8 PM (weekends and holidays a bit tighter) I can find
somewhere to swim all year round. I was planning to move inland but the source of swimming holes
dried up out there. Are there any similar pool systems?

Yup, my city has 9 and the three neighbouring cities (all within 15 minutes drive from where I live)
has 7 total. I can find a pool pretty much any day or hour of the week (from 6am to 10pm), including
weekends and holidays. In fact, these past two weeks, I've gone to 4 different pools because of my
changing schedule.