Sure, but I know who’s stuff has been in there.
If you want to think about it that way, isn’t a regular washing machine the same way?
I use the suit dryer and I pee in the pool.
Flanagan, the only thing worse than putting on a wet suit for doubles is pulling up a wet suit after dropping a dew rock and then having to do an AT set.
“You are not alone, I also wash my my suits after wearing them. I also use the dryer thing to get the excess water out before I throw it in my bag.”
Ditto
First of all, I have no clue what a dew rock is…I guess it is not fun to put on your suit after dropping one though.
Anyway, there were a few guys on our team with HPV (I was not one of them). All of the guys on the team used the suit dryer thing. HPV was not jumping from suit to suit.
Schwingding, don’t worry you’re not going to bring home the HIV or the HERP or HPV from the suit dryer.
It’s when you have to get out of the water because the grizzly bear is poking his head out of the cave.
So you pull your wet suit down to drop the Cosby’s off at the pool, deploy the Navy SEALs, give birth to a brown baby boy, or whatever you wanna call it. Pulling that wet suit back up is a bitch!
HPV, nice.
What’s up with the peeing in the pool, not even my three year old pee’s in the pool
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If you want to get a good workout done, then you will pee in the pool. Eganski and I were both swimmers. Pretty much every former swimmer I know pees in the pool…
Its really hard to imagine a situation when I wouldn’t “just let it go” in the pool when having the urge to pee.
I too have spent some time in the pool but can honestly say I never took a leak in the pool. Maybe I was just oblivious to the rest of the team letting it rip, I just can’t do it.
When you have a coach who will only let you get out of the pool during practice for two reasons (to shit or for “women’s issues”) you become accustomed to peeing in the pool real fast.
I can honestly say that I even pee in the pool during recreational/leisure times.
And as a former waterpark manager, IF there is the proper amount of chlorine in the pool (basically anything above 1.0ppm) you will not die.
Based on that logic everyone just stand around and piss in the pool all summer long, I think it’s both disgusting and lazy, even my kids take the time to get out and pee.
thank you all for grossing me out thoroughly. not only do I never want to use the centrifuge again, I don’t want to wear my suit either.
Logically though, the bacteria, viruses and other lurking germs are probably way less of a threat than the chlorine itself. Chlorine is a major industrial pollutant and its probably killing us all.
Seriously, there are far bigger things to worry about. I don’t allow myself to get grossed out by everyday stuff. I had a roommate in college who wouldn’t eat peanut butter because she heard they allowed xx/ppb rat hair. So she ate balogna instead. I didn’t tell her how/what its made of, she would have starved.
As for the pool pee-ers, yes, urine is sterile. But its still gross. As a former swimmer I physically can’t pee in a pool. Totla mental block. Even in the ocean I have difficulty letting go.
My job here is complete.
thank you all for grossing me out thoroughly. not only do I never want to use the centrifuge again, I don’t want to wear my suit either.
Same when I was a kid. There was no getting out of the pool to pee during workout. On Sundays, we were allowed a 5 minute break in the second half of our 4 hour workout–that’s it!. During waterpolo games, there is often not enough time to get out of the pool between periods. I can amost guarantee that when each team lined up on the goal line at the beginning of each period there were 14 women peeing simultaneously, waiting for the ref to toss out the ball.
-Danielle
I doubt many people do what you do, use the spinner, then wash your suit. You may be the only person in fact.
I use the dryer AND wash my suit. The dryer does not remove chlorine, it just makes it easier to get your suit home. I rinse the suit out in my sink with a little woolite or detergent and hang to dry. Or in the washer and line dry. I don’t think the suit dryer kills your suit, I think it’s the chlorine. My suits are all fine and lasting well. I only swim twice a week though…and I have 4 suits so I rotate.
“Double workouts are so miserable if you have to put on a wet suit.”
Having been a swimmer for most of my life, I’m embarrassed to have to report that this brainstorm was just dropped on me by one of my female athletes when we talked about going to the hot tub after a long tri simulation…
Run the suit under some warm water before putting it on!!
its called a “SuitMate”. Yeah, I use it after every workout.
doesn’t freak me out in the least. That’s what we have an immune system for.
Take a microbiology course at the local college. You’ll either go Howard Hughes nuts or just not care anymore. I choose the latter.
From what I can tell everyone in our locker room who uses the spinner washes their suit first while in the showers, most by soaping up before/while removing their suit and then rinsing the warm soapy water out of it before spinning it…if you don’t rinse the pool water out of your suit it’s going to break down pretty fast even if you air dry it, and even faster if you spin it, so so anybody who just puts a suit straight from their body into the spinner without showering and rinsing it is going to end up going through a lot of suits. We’re the first workout of the day, so I do assume that the cleaning crew has done something sensible, cleaning wise, to the appliance since the previous day of lap swimmers, but maybe that’s not the case… I know people who rinse their riding clothes and then spin them so they’re clean and dry for the ride home.
I’m far more grossed out by what’s growing on the shower/locker room floor (athlete’s foot, plantar wart spores etc). If you think a stainless steel high rpm suit spinner in a chlorinated environment and where most people are showering with soap/shampoo before using it is scary, you must never have used a laundromat in college…
Hey don’t get me started on all of the things in that locker room that gross me out. Lets stick to no more than one per day, OK?