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Madelaine wrote:
> Mike Edey wrote:
>
> > Anyone done much swimming recently?
> >
> > --Mike
> I go to the pool and what do you know but the pool is closed because
of
> a swim meet. Those people think just because they swim 20-30 hours
per
> week to improve their times that they can interfere with my workout!
> The nerve!
Such is life. The one here "shuts" for a lot of reasons. Ladies hour
being one of them (-:
I've not had a swim lately. First I can not as yet translate (into
English) all the displayed pool information and asking at the reception
drew a blank. I am being very careful. This time last year a guest
nearly went off her trolly when I suggested eating cookie (at home).
Aparantly it was not the proper time of day to eat such a thing. People
are very nice, but they do have their cultural barriers and so I feel
I'm constantly tippy-toeing. So there's no way I feel like popping
along for a swim until such time as I have sufficient Dutch to tackle
any uspets I might inadvertantly create.
e.g. A couple of years ago a lady friend told me she had heard the mens
changing rooms in our gym had open showers. "So?" I asked not able to
understand why she was asking in such a shocked manner". She gringed
"But what's wrong?" I asked and then put it to her that I for one
couldn't be bothered putting on everything just to take it all off
again onece I got behind some shower door.
That led to a question as to how I go from the locker to the showers.
To me, I don't see the problem, but may well encounter a problem here
and have no way of smoothening off the concerns.
>
> It did give me an idea for a more challenging meet--have randomly
placed
> very slow swimmers as obstacles and no lane lines. This could make
> swimming a spectator sport. Plus, I'd get my workout in.
> Madelaine
Apart form concerns of cultural ethiquete my interest in swimming is
not for fitness, weight loss, or racking up mileage. It's initially
purely for the sensory experience of being in such water and how I can
alter or highlight the experience. I also like to explore the
challenges of limitations on movement within water. And so I've worked
out for myself how to do the frontcrawl whilst travelling backwards,
ditto the backstroke and just about any stroke. (the buterfly being
udsidedown whilst travelling feet first)
Clearly when I first do get into the pool here I'll have to subdue that
interest by quite a bit.
I see they have lanes for lane swimmer. From experices at my previous
pool, I wonder how often a lane swimmer will hammer up and down outside
the lanes, which are empty, and then moan about the likes of me and you
getting in his royal way!
> Mike Edey wrote:
>
> > Anyone done much swimming recently?
> >
> > --Mike
> I go to the pool and what do you know but the pool is closed because
of
> a swim meet. Those people think just because they swim 20-30 hours
per
> week to improve their times that they can interfere with my workout!
> The nerve!
Such is life. The one here "shuts" for a lot of reasons. Ladies hour
being one of them (-:
I've not had a swim lately. First I can not as yet translate (into
English) all the displayed pool information and asking at the reception
drew a blank. I am being very careful. This time last year a guest
nearly went off her trolly when I suggested eating cookie (at home).
Aparantly it was not the proper time of day to eat such a thing. People
are very nice, but they do have their cultural barriers and so I feel
I'm constantly tippy-toeing. So there's no way I feel like popping
along for a swim until such time as I have sufficient Dutch to tackle
any uspets I might inadvertantly create.
e.g. A couple of years ago a lady friend told me she had heard the mens
changing rooms in our gym had open showers. "So?" I asked not able to
understand why she was asking in such a shocked manner". She gringed
"But what's wrong?" I asked and then put it to her that I for one
couldn't be bothered putting on everything just to take it all off
again onece I got behind some shower door.
That led to a question as to how I go from the locker to the showers.
To me, I don't see the problem, but may well encounter a problem here
and have no way of smoothening off the concerns.
>
> It did give me an idea for a more challenging meet--have randomly
placed
> very slow swimmers as obstacles and no lane lines. This could make
> swimming a spectator sport. Plus, I'd get my workout in.
> Madelaine
Apart form concerns of cultural ethiquete my interest in swimming is
not for fitness, weight loss, or racking up mileage. It's initially
purely for the sensory experience of being in such water and how I can
alter or highlight the experience. I also like to explore the
challenges of limitations on movement within water. And so I've worked
out for myself how to do the frontcrawl whilst travelling backwards,
ditto the backstroke and just about any stroke. (the buterfly being
udsidedown whilst travelling feet first)
Clearly when I first do get into the pool here I'll have to subdue that
interest by quite a bit.
I see they have lanes for lane swimmer. From experices at my previous
pool, I wonder how often a lane swimmer will hammer up and down outside
the lanes, which are empty, and then moan about the likes of me and you
getting in his royal way!