Yes, at the university pool we have shower stalls. :-)

At the local Y we even have stalls for changing your clothes. You can't change your clothes in the general locker area because....they aren't good at keeping boys out of the women's locker room. Let's face it, they don't try. Heck, once a man came in and sprayed for bugs while I was in the shower.

I am puzzled. Are you talking about a "pull buoy"?

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Pink? Maybe. Maybe not. You decide.

I read it as he brought his swimmer toys on deck, didn't use any of them in the workout, packed up and went home. People noticed that he exhibited this routine swimmer behavior and didn't understand it.

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Saw something I haven't seen mentioned previously, the 'Swim Parent'.

The two lanes next to me were taken by Mom, Dad, and their two small children (a boy about 10 and a girl around 6). Initially I figured it was a great way for the family to do something together and keep everybody in shape. Until I started hearing the coaching by the parents. Now note, the parents were swimming with the children, not just coaching from the side of the pool.

"You missed your sendoff again, pay attention!"
6 year old pulls up gasping "Ok in five seconds go again"
"If you want more rest you need to go faster"
"That was a really sloppy butterfly, you can do better" Again to the six year old
"If you keep stopping at the wall we're just going to do it again"

They left after about an hour and all I could think was "There goes two kids who will despise swimming after high school, if they make it that long."

The pool where I swim mandates swim caps. Last night there was an older gentleman who was swimming in an ill-fitting large purple shower cap doing breaststroke. I thought this was strange but the lifeguards didn't say anything (they have spares at the pool and thought they would have offered one). Opinions?

It was a bit like this:



Am I being judgemental that you shouldn't swim one of those things?

This intrigues me. Why would it matter? Are they trying to make everyone look like freds?

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What about bald/shaven head people?

I work in a lab that mandates hairnets, even for the bald/shaven head guys. I think that part is ridiculous.

Pools in Ireland frequently (always?) require caps to be worn.

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Eliot
blog thing - strava thing

If everyone looks like a Fred then there can be no Fred-bullying... I don't know why they mandate caps, although I would guess it makes the cleaning easier somehow. Given it's a pain for them to enforce such a rule, I presume there is a benefit that makes it worthwhile.

I like this right here. Positive spin I guess.

The more I think about it the more I agree with the direction you were going. I suppose it makes it easier to clean.

Would this same place make me wear a condom to prevent me from peeing in the pool?? That's the real head scratcher

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I may have seen the same woman. Was it in London?

No, that would break discrimination laws as it would target men-only. I guess a colostomy bag requirement would be fair though. I'll raise it to them and see how they respond.

"The pool rats". These three 4 guys are always there. Always. I start and they are already there. I leave after about an hour or so and they are still there. They are upper middle age guys, kind of overweight a bit, not your typical swiming types. They do intervals 50s, 100, what not, sometimes long distances etc. But no matter when I go to the pool, they are always there.

The stretching lady. Never enters the pool, just stretches on a mat by the pool. Like the pool rats, she is always there: before me, while I am there and probably long after I am gone.

They probably just turn up every day to watch the crazy triathlete.

Today there was a youngish guy treading water in the depend for almost the entire time I was swimming, more than an hour. Just... treading water. For an hour. What is the point????

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Aquaman can also take a break sometime.

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Only fools never change their minds and I'll never change my mind about that.

Could have been training for SEAL team tryouts.

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**Note above poster works for a retailer selling bikes and related gear*

We have that girl at my pool. She's a second lieutenant who used to swim for West Point.

That's a very kind thought, but this guy was not in SEAL shape.

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Today's denizen is me. Finally broke 20 seconds for 25 yds and I celebrated like I just won the Olympic gold.

Yesterday there was an older man (around 70) doing deep water running in a short arm/short leg surf wetsuit. Nothing unusual so far.

However... the wetsuit was way too big for him - there would have been a one inch gap between it & his arms/legs.

Oh yeah - he was also wearing runners. And socks.

Training for water polo?

When I'm an old man I'm going to troll people like that.


I saw a girl doing that, actually. She did one set of squats, then put the bar on the very lowest setting, and sat down on it. Picked up her iPad. Loaded up pinterest. The only squat rack in the gym, mind you. I stared for a moment, in wonderment. Went and rowed for 30 minutes. She was pissy when I asked her if she was done. She then did one set of bench, and was back on the iPad. Somebody asked her to move again, and she stormed off to the leg press. Nobody bothered her there.

We have 3 obese middle age men who put on swim trunks and stand in the pool for 30-60 minutes talking about fantasy football. None of them ever swim, they just stand there and talk. I think they do it in the pool so they can go home smelling like chlorine and tell their wives that they had a swim workout.

I have sheepishly raise my hand as I've done this too.

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