I go to the pool and what do you know but the pool is closed because
of
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a swim meet. Those people think just because they swim 20-30 hours
per
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week to improve their times that they can interfere with my workout! The nerve!
Such is life. The one here "shuts" for a lot of reasons. Ladies hour being one of them (-: I've not had a swim lately. First I can not as yet translate (into English) all the displayed pool information and asking at the reception drew a blank. I am being very careful. This time last year a guest nearly went off her trolly when I suggested eating cookie (at home). Aparantly it was not the proper time of day to eat such a thing. People are very nice, but they do have their cultural barriers and so I feel I'm constantly tippy-toeing. So there's no way I feel like popping along for a swim until such time as I have sufficient Dutch to tackle any uspets I might inadvertantly create. e.g. A couple of years ago a lady friend told me she had heard the mens changing rooms in our gym had open showers. "So?" I asked not able to understand why she was asking in such a shocked manner". She gringed "But what's wrong?" I asked and then put it to her that I for one couldn't be bothered putting on everything just to take it all off again onece I got behind some shower door. That led to a question as to how I go from the locker to the showers. To me, I don't see the problem, but may well encounter a problem here and have no way of smoothening off the concerns.
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It did give me an idea for a more challenging meet--have randomly
placed
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very slow swimmers as obstacles and no lane lines. This could make swimming a spectator sport. Plus, I'd get my workout in. Madelaine
Apart form concerns of cultural ethiquete my interest in swimming is not for fitness, weight loss, or racking up mileage. It's initially purely for the sensory experience of being in such water and how I can alter or highlight the experience. I also like to explore the challenges of limitations on movement within water. And so I've worked out for myself how to do the frontcrawl whilst travelling backwards, ditto the backstroke and just about any stroke. (the buterfly being udsidedown whilst travelling feet first) Clearly when I first do get into the pool here I'll have to subdue that interest by quite a bit. I see they have lanes for lane swimmer. From experices at my previous pool, I wonder how often a lane swimmer will hammer up and down outside the lanes, which are empty, and then moan about the likes of me and you getting in his royal way!
I go to the pool and what do you know but the pool is closed because
of
Quoted message said:
a swim meet. Those people think just because they swim 20-30 hours
per
Quoted message said:
week to improve their times that they can interfere with my workout! The nerve!
Such is life. The one here "shuts" for a lot of reasons. Ladies hour being one of them (-: I've not had a swim lately. First I can not as yet translate (into English) all the displayed pool information and asking at the reception drew a blank. I am being very careful. This time last year a guest nearly went off her trolly when I suggested eating cookie (at home). Aparantly it was not the proper time of day to eat such a thing. People are very nice, but they do have their cultural barriers and so I feel I'm constantly tippy-toeing. So there's no way I feel like popping along for a swim until such time as I have sufficient Dutch to tackle any uspets I might inadvertantly create. e.g. A couple of years ago a lady friend told me she had heard the mens changing rooms in our gym had open showers. "So?" I asked not able to understand why she was asking in such a shocked manner". She gringed "But what's wrong?" I asked and then put it to her that I for one couldn't be bothered putting on everything just to take it all off again onece I got behind some shower door. That led to a question as to how I go from the locker to the showers. To me, I don't see the problem, but may well encounter a problem here and have no way of smoothening off the concerns.
Quoted message said:
It did give me an idea for a more challenging meet--have randomly
placed
Quoted message said:
very slow swimmers as obstacles and no lane lines. This could make swimming a spectator sport. Plus, I'd get my workout in. Madelaine
Apart form concerns of cultural ethiquete my interest in swimming is not for fitness, weight loss, or racking up mileage. It's initially purely for the sensory experience of being in such water and how I can alter or highlight the experience. I also like to explore the challenges of limitations on movement within water. And so I've worked out for myself how to do the frontcrawl whilst travelling backwards, ditto the backstroke and just about any stroke. (the buterfly being udsidedown whilst travelling feet first) Clearly when I first do get into the pool here I'll have to subdue that interest by quite a bit. I see they have lanes for lane swimmer. From experices at my previous pool, I wonder how often a lane swimmer will hammer up and down outside the lanes, which are empty, and then moan about the likes of me and you getting in his royal way!
Why were you arguing about swimming through heavy surf?
I go to the pool and what do you know but the pool is closed
because
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of
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a swim meet. Those people think just because they swim 20-30 hours
per
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week to improve their times that they can interfere with my
workout!
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The nerve!
Such is life. The one here "shuts" for a lot of reasons. Ladies
hour
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being one of them (-: I've not had a swim lately. First I can not as yet translate (into English) all the displayed pool information and asking at the
reception
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drew a blank. I am being very careful. This time last year a guest nearly went off her trolly when I suggested eating cookie (at
home).
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Aparantly it was not the proper time of day to eat such a thing.
People
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are very nice, but they do have their cultural barriers and so I
feel
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I'm constantly tippy-toeing. So there's no way I feel like popping along for a swim until such time as I have sufficient Dutch to
tackle
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any uspets I might inadvertantly create. e.g. A couple of years ago a lady friend told me she had heard the
mens
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changing rooms in our gym had open showers. "So?" I asked not able
to
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understand why she was asking in such a shocked manner". She
gringed
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"But what's wrong?" I asked and then put it to her that I for one couldn't be bothered putting on everything just to take it all off again onece I got behind some shower door. That led to a question as to how I go from the locker to the
showers.
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To me, I don't see the problem, but may well encounter a problem
here
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and have no way of smoothening off the concerns.
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It did give me an idea for a more challenging meet--have randomly
placed
Quoted message said:
very slow swimmers as obstacles and no lane lines. This could make swimming a spectator sport. Plus, I'd get my workout in. Madelaine
Apart form concerns of cultural ethiquete my interest in swimming
is
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not for fitness, weight loss, or racking up mileage. It's initially purely for the sensory experience of being in such water and how I
can
Quoted message said:
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alter or highlight the experience. I also like to explore the challenges of limitations on movement within water. And so I've
worked
Quoted message said:
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out for myself how to do the frontcrawl whilst travelling
backwards,
Quoted message said:
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ditto the backstroke and just about any stroke. (the buterfly being udsidedown whilst travelling feet first) Clearly when I first do get into the pool here I'll have to subdue
that
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interest by quite a bit. I see they have lanes for lane swimmer. From experices at my
previous
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pool, I wonder how often a lane swimmer will hammer up and down
outside
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the lanes, which are empty, and then moan about the likes of me and
you
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getting in his royal way!
Why were you arguing about swimming through heavy surf?
Why not? Am I not entitled to wonder about such a challenge? (or was that another 'I'm just bored' question?)
It looks like my next swim will more likely be in sea water. That's on my mind. It was an interesting question you raised. I wondered about the limitations of movement in such circumstances. Couldn't quite figure the 100m reference... seemd far to close to me on reflecting the force of that wave, but had no data to know for sure. Was I arguing? I hadn't thought so. Just trying to get the big picture. But I found I had to drag out the information and it was kicking and screaming the whole way, and with such tenacity that if that alone meant survival, then no problem.
