You know, that thing in the locker room that one can use to spin the excess water out of your swimsuit? The one you drop your suit in, hold down the lid and let the little centrifuge spin the water out?
I used to until a few years ago when it was ruined for me by a fellow swimmer who said that using that thing is like asking every guy who’s used it before you to wear your suit around for a while before returning it to you.
Now I can’t look at that thing without wondering how the health department allows them. There are hundreds of little kids, and lots of less than appealing adults using that thing every week - it never gets cleaned.
What do you think they put chlorine in the pool for? The suit dryer is the greatest invention ever. Double workouts are so miserable if you have to put on a wet suit.
If you really believe that a few ppm of chlorine does the trick, enjoy the concept that you are putting your swimsuit in the same basket, unrinsed, as everyone else using that thing. Think a little chlorine gets inside those little pieces of poo clinging to those little kids’ (and old men’s) suits? Enjoy using that nasty thing.
Isn’t is used AFTER getting out of the pool? Then only part of your suit touches the perforated bin? Worst case: someone’s pube gets a free ride back to your locker?
I’d be more concerned about what’s on the floor in the shower, or about the band-aids & blobs of ick in the corners of the pool.
I agree with Flanagan. It’s all in how you look at it. I mean, you could also say to yourself “eww, swimming in a pool that other people swim in, that’s like sharing a bathtub with the entire master’s squad” but most of us prefer not to think of it like that.
That said, there is probably a (very) small fortune to be made selling a drop-in cleaner for those suit dryers.
I don’t use them…not so much because it grosses me out, but because suits that go in the spinner wear out much quicker (we did an experiment during one waterpolo season in college) and at $50 a pop for a woman’s suit, I’d rather squeeze it out by hand. I have a friend who has a small clothesline in the back of her car and hangs her damp things up to dry there during the day.
-Danielle
i never really thought about it. Maybe I’ll carry some a squirt bottle with some rubbing alcohol in my duffle bag and clean that shiznit off tomorrow before i use it. Luckily the gym I go to has a seperate locker room for kids. That probably cuts down the amount of urin and feces in our dryer.
So … I may be missing the point here. Am I the only one who washes his suit after every wear? That should get out whatever may be lurking in the spin dryer. I just throw the suit in with the other workout clothes.
I was always told: Have 3 swim suits – one in the laundry, one in your drawer, and the one you are wearing.
I doubt many people do what you do, use the spinner, then wash your suit. You may be the only person in fact.
So … I may be missing the point here. Am I the only one who washes his suit after every wear? That should get out whatever may be lurking in the spin dryer. I just throw the suit in with the other workout clothes.
I was always told: Have 3 swim suits – one in the laundry, one in your drawer, and the one you are wearing.
I doubt many people do what you do, use the spinner, then wash your suit. You may be the only person in fact.
So … I may be missing the point here. Am I the only one who washes his suit after every wear? That should get out whatever may be lurking in the spin dryer. I just throw the suit in with the other workout clothes.
I was always told: Have 3 swim suits – one in the laundry, one in your drawer, and the one you are wearing.
Really? I only use the spinner to get the water out before I stick the suit in my bag and take it home. I thought washing the chlorine out of them made them last longer. I realize washing puts a strain on the suit, but, I use the handwash cycle, as I do with all my workout clothes, and use Assos wash.
If you really believe that a few ppm of chlorine does the trick,
yes I do…just like a few ppm of arsenic in a well can poison an entire town!
I don’t get why you are so skevved out about the suit spinner and have no qualms with jumping in the pool which is basically a soup of all the crap that washes off everyone else’s body…
Oh yeah, and then you might get some water in your mouth while you are swimming…
But you go on and keep worrying about the suit spinner!
I don’t worry about swimming in it because I can’t do anything about it. If I want to swim, and don’t own my own lap pool, I have to accept certain things. I like to minimize my risk where possible - finding other people’s pubes in my suit - oh man that would end all swimming for me. Imagining my suit spinning around, smashed to the wall of that basket along with all the other kids’ suits, nastiness being centrifuged right through my suit, yech…
Isn’t the whole point of a centrifuge that all the water and crap goes to the outside? So when you spin your suit, stuff shouldn’t be centrifuged through your suit because everything should be moving outward? I guess with all the other nastiness in a gym or pool locker room and in the pool itself, the suit spinner is the least of my worries.
I don’t use the spinner thing because it is hard on Lycra suits. As for washing them I just keep mine on in the shower after the swim work out. I use the shampoo on it while still on so as to retain the shape then take it off and blot dry with the towel, no twisting, and hang it up at home to dry.
Great! Just what I need. Another excuse to skip the pool entirely!
“Thanks, Dan”
ha ha
exposure to germs will make you stronger
the bad stuff is like the cart handle at the store
or a phone door handle of a bathroom no bleach on them
I replace toilets often a work
I just don’t think about it
they love my work and pay me well for a working toilet
