Splash!

[susandennis]

It was so good to get back in the pool today.  I got there way early - they hadn't even put in the lane floats yet.  I took some pictures to document...  The foreground is the shallow end or teaching pool.  The rest is where I swim laps.  (I had an eye opening comment swap with venta about swimming laps. I was confusing her as she thinks of a lap is going around - like around the edge. What I call laps, she calls lengths which makes WAY more sense! )

The outside lanes - the ones closest to the edge are reserved for slower swimmers and the middle lanes for the speed demons.  So, generally I swim in the very farthest lane in this photo over there where you can barely see Erica vacuuming with her long pole.

It was a great swim and I met Chuck who is apparently a new lifeguard.  He came up to me as I was leaving and said 'so I take it you are a regular.  My name is Chuck, what's yours?'  I'm not sure how it picked up on my regularness but it was lovely of him to introduce himself.

He was also teaching the aqua jogging class but I'd done my 60 laps and didn't have the energy to break in a new instructor.  I did see Madaline and Judith and managed a bit of a visit.

I had taken a bag full of Betty's cat food that Zoey won't touch in for Madaline but she said her cat wouldn't like it either so on the way home, I passed a new homeless/tent camp and stopped there to see if anyone had cats.  The people at the entrance said 'she does!' and pointed to a young lady who was delighted with the cat food. Nice.

The bears were all turned over to the 'adoption agency' and now I'm having lunch.

Comments

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

Is it the perspective in the photo or are the outside lanes much narrower than the others?

[susandennis]

It's the perspective. All the lanes are the same width.

[shutterbug.livejournal.com]

Your pool is so beautiful! So jealous.

[howeird]

Beautiful pool. Putting on my AR hat for a moment:
A lap is two lengths - there and back.

More than you ever want to know about swimiquette:
https://www.stanford.edu/dept/pe/cgi-bin/services/aquatics/lap-swim-etiquette/

[susandennis]

A lap, in my mind is one length of the pool so 2 lengths in your book. Whatever. I do find it interesting that your link cheats a mile pretty substantially. I don't quite get how they save 110 yards off a mile but whatever.

In susandennis land, a lap is one length, 60 laps=1,500 yards and 72 laps=1 mile.

[kittymistress.livejournal.com]

That's a great looking pool. I have to swim (or my version of swim) at the high school.

[susandennis]

Interestingly, the way Seattle got such good pools was a deal struck in the 70's - they got money by building all the pools next to high schools. So they are shared. That's why they aren't open to the public between 8 and 11 am and again from 3-5 - that's when the high schools have them.

[brigitte lichtenberger (from livejournal.com)]

What a fantastic arrangement!

[susandennis]

Yes. I used to get pissed off that the pools weren't open when I wanted them to be until one of the pool managers explained to me that without the schools we wouldn't even have pools. That changed my mind in a hurry!