Olympic pools

im not certain but i think georgia aquatic center in watkinsville has an olympic coompeition pool. lots of us swim there and its real near athens.

Thanks.  The Watkinsville one would be perfect since she lives in Athens.  I checked their website and it didn't say wether it was an olympic or not.  However, I think you can only swim if you get a membership.  I didn't see anything about 1 day use.

I have a SwimAtlanta near me in Lawrenceville but I went in to buy some jammers one time and it was super crowded and they had it set up at 25m/y but I guess they change it to 50m for the competitions.  It has a $5 one day pass but worried it may be crowded, especially if they go to the long lanes.

I would get a membership to one but my gf who is home with parents for the summer goes to Emory and I can get 14passes for $50 to their olympic pool so I'll do that once she gets back.  I'm just needing one because my buddy just got into triathlons along with me (and I have a few others interested) and my friend on the UGA tri doesn't mind helping us learn to swim properly.  So we are wanting to get a few lessons in for people interested in triathlons.

This is not convenient for anyone living in Athens, but for anyone else who might need to know, the Grant Park Pool and the Adamsville Natatorium are both 50M Pools. GP is only open during the summer and Adamsville gets converted to  a 25M pool in the fall/winter.

The Swim Atlanta pool in Lawrenceville is set to 50 meters for the summer. It is crowded at times, usually when they have the swim classes, but opens up pretty well at others. I noticed 11:00-12:00am is a great time to go during the week.

Where is the grant park pool exactly? Is it the one by freedom parkway and the MLK park? My GF lives there and I am usually down there saturday into sunday if they are open sundays early that would be great to fit in since the local pool I use bogan park in buford is only open mon/tues early ams the only time I can make it. Would love to fit another day of swimming in.

Thanks guys.  We are going to try SwimAtlanta 1st.  Then if they are too crowded we'll go to Collins Hill in north Lawrenceville and worst case we'll go to my gym pool and just swim through the teenaged waders in the lap pool there.

In re Grant Park Pool: No, it's off Boulevard, one light south of I-20; It's on the other side of Grant Park from the zoo - You park on Park St. A significant amount of space is allocated to lap swimming, so don't be put off by the crowds. I believe the website is www.grantparkpool.org.

Edited by alltom1 2009-07-15 11:55 PM

I just looked it up on google maps and it appears to be like 2 blocks from her place... still no clue where it is though haha. I'm out of town for business (actually sitting in baltimore traffic as I post this) so I'll check it out next week when I am back, thanks.

Kind of an update.  We had our friend stay in Athens because it was storming so we weren't sure they'd be swimming.  We did go to Swim Atlanta and it was set to 50m.  Unfortunately on Friday their lap swim isn't open and I saw some swimmers and kids getting lessons.

I went to Collins Hill Park and their pool I believe was set to 25m.  They weren't too crowded and have wide swim lanes.