Andrea N
Dc Swimmer
Andrea Nott
OMG! I am kind of in shock! I have never heard of anything like this. I say, keep doing your synchro laps :) Is the pool manager the head honcho, or what?
He was the boss of that particular pool/park. I called the head of parks & rec the next day and spoke to the head of aquatics, who fortunately has seen us practicing! He agreed it was unreasonable. We are now officially allowed to do our drill laps and spread out to practice routines if there are unoccupied lap lanes. "Just use common sense", he said. Yayy! Glad I called.
Great news! Way to go!
I'm so glad you got a good result when you called to complain. I've run into the same kind of discrimination out here in Los Angeles and it sucks. Two incidents come immediately to mind.
The first was at a public pool. I had the lane to myself. When someone joined me, even though there were other free lanes, one of the lifeguards told me that I had to swim regular laps. I pointed out that their regulations defined laps as progressive forward motion and that I was in compliance with it. He tells me to hold on, he needs to go check with his manager. He comes back and says that I'm right, but I still need to swim regular laps anyway.
The next incident made me absolutely livid. It happened at gym. Again, I had the lane to myself the whole time I did a freestyle workout. When I switched to synchro laps, it seemed like everybody and his brother wanted to swim in that lane. Everybody figured it out except for one jerk who was determined to swim circles instead of simply splitting the lane like I asked him to do. Twice.
When he crashed into me for the third time, he got out and complained to some of the trainers. They came in and told me that what I was doing was was not swimming so I needed to get out of that lane. Talk about seeing red! I don't have a poker face so it was pretty obvious how ticked I was. The guy actually backed up from the edge of the pool.
I had to move over to the next lane that had like five people already in it. None of them were very strong swimmers. My ballet legs were faster than some of their freestyles. Talk about frustrating. I called to complain about that, but no one cared. I ended up cancelling my gym membership instead.
I just don't understand what all the synchro hate is about. It's silly.
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