Crowded Pools and Gyms - 2012 (Page 2)

Should have read this before I went to the pool this morning!  It was crowded with people barely moving and standing around half the time.  Then to make it worse they closed down 3 of the 4 lanes for a water aerobics class and the girls that got there after my son and I, took the only lane left.  On the plus side, they did share with us, so I can't be upset about that. 

Regardless, this is great advice, thank you for posting.

The roads aren't crowded.

DanielG - 2012-01-03 10:46 AM

marmadaddy - 2012-01-03 9:55 AM

DanielG - 2012-01-03 8:10 AM

marmadaddy - 2012-01-02 9:08 AM

 

... The bubbler is blocked by someone who is trying hard not to look totally out of their element.

Someone did their school years near Milwaukee Yeah, pool was overly crowded today.

Nope. From Boston.

Wow. Never heard it from anyone raised away from Milwaukee. Interesting

They are bubbler in RI too!

jldicarlo - 2012-01-04 5:09 AM

DanielG - 2012-01-03 10:46 AM

marmadaddy - 2012-01-03 9:55 AM

DanielG - 2012-01-03 8:10 AM

marmadaddy - 2012-01-02 9:08 AM

 

... The bubbler is blocked by someone who is trying hard not to look totally out of their element.

Someone did their school years near Milwaukee Yeah, pool was overly crowded today.

Nope. From Boston.

Wow. Never heard it from anyone raised away from Milwaukee. Interesting

They are bubbler in RI too!

Strangely enough, I know what a bubbler is too, and I grew up about as far away from the Midwest/East Coast as it's possible to get on Earth ...

Thanks for the beautiful reminder, Mike. Not about the bubblers. About the gym folks. We don't really have them here in Indonesia, but there will be a spate of new folks looking to get into endurance sports, and I want to be there for them.

Bottom left of the page.

I remember being that beginner:  getting dirty looks because I took somebody's spin bike (there are 30 but people are creatures of habit).  More dirty looks for taking their locker (same reason as spin bike).  Interrupting the 5am swim crowd from their routine.  Of course then I swam all of 10 minutes before almost drowning. 

Today, I try to hold my patience.  I really do.  I don't have a favorite spin bike or a favorite treadmill. The only thinkg that annoy's me the most is the pool.  No not those that don't shower.    The newbs don't understand the concept of sharing a lane so they take it personally when you get in their lane.  I just try to go at 5am when the gym opens and be one of the first in the pool.  Sucks, but solves the problem most of the time. 

I do wish them the best of luck.  Sticking to 'working out' has to be one of the hardest commitments to maintain.  Thus the reason by February, the crowd has returned to normal levels. 

funnily ebough i swam yesterday for the 1st time in 2012 and went to the gym today for the 1st time in 2012 and I fully expected the pool to have atleast 10 to a lane and the gym be jam packed.

How wrong was I !

I guess the economic climate has some positives for us afterall ! I had 4 in my lane and had no wait for machines at all in the gym ! Result !! Now all i need is to find a physio willing to work for free and sort out my tendinitis !

I haven't been to the gym yet this year, but I did do a Zumba class last night (a paramedic at my fire station teaches) that was jam-packed!  Usually there are between 30-40 people there, but there had to be at least 60 people last night, mostly new faces.  I'm very happy that there were so many people there trying to get in better shape, but if they all stay, we'll need a bigger room!

I had to keep reminding myself of this post every time I nearly got stepped on or hit in the head cause we were in such closer quarters.  It'll be interesting to see how many of them come back next week, since there were a bunch of new songs and some of them were really tough!

You don't even have to be that fast-I get that swimming 2:00-2:10/100

ditto.  Even better is my neigherhood pool (which is long enough for lap swimming) I go sometimes when there are these 3 older ladies in there.  They think I am the bomb.  If only they knew...

Way to go on your weight loss! 

Been on BT for a few years but never saw this thread until this AM.  Love it!

This morning in the pool locker room I started talking to a chunky guy with trunks trying to learn to swim.  He is signed up for a local Sprint with his buddies and is using it to get motivated to get in shape.  He made it 100M today and was gassed.  I swam a slow 1200M just trying to get back into it for a June 1/2 IM.  I recounted my first few weeks in the pool in 2008 and how 1-2 lengths would kill me.  I recommended the TI triathlon swimming book as a good beginner reference.  

Thanks for reminding us of the joy of sharing this passion of ours and welcoming everyone to share in it.  I hope everyone I see this month sticks with it.  They will just have to expand the parking lot and get more equipment.  We can all learn to swim 4 to a lane.