What’s ACW? All Crawl Work?
I swam into someone last week, on purpose, as I was the only person in the fast lane. I always swim clockwise, as per the sign, just in case someone gets in. Knobby McKnobberson decides he’ll swim up and down
I pay £35pcm and the lane swimming is 0615-0730, then you can keep swimming until 0830 most days. Even longer if no school lessons (about 3pm ish?), but there’s always kids lessons from 3-5pm ish. Then clubs, then public again after about 7pm, then more clubs some nights from 8pm-10pm.
yes, exactly that. Plus doing a bit of poolside and water based rehab stuff, like @Mungo2 's pressup set. It was basically like Baywatch this morning
As the hip injury gets better might be able to do some shorter stuff but kicking hard is still not ok, so I’m just enjoying cruising up and down for 60 lengths in the open air pool. it’s the only aerobic exercise I have been able to do for nearly 4 weeks
Same, I always swim as per the sign unless some knob is already in and is going up & down.
A few weeks ago, a woman in the “medium” lane was swimming right against the lane rope, going the wrong way, doing very bad backstoke which meant her arm was going into my lane.
Of course it was my fault that our arms collided.
After she’d finished shouting/screaming I pointed to the sign at the end of the lane to show her that this could have been avoided.
Again it was my fault, as why was I swimming round and round rather than staying on one side.
Also, she didn’t want to swim near the wall.
At the hospital its much more sedate, we talk if two more often then not we will swim side by side, especially if the other person is a decent swimmer. Often get a lane to myself though so just swim up the centre line.
The lanes in the pool I use go ACW, CW, ACW, CW, ACW, CW .
It’s a hangover from Covid regs & meant to stop us swimming alongside people for any length of time.
What it means nowadays is that if you connect with an arm swinger coming the opposite way it hurts & if I’m swimming CW & get asked to move over a lane I feel sick.
Don’t know if hangover from COVID, every pool I’ve ever swam in in the UK was like that. It makes sense so that you don’t cross with people coming the opposite way.
I was swimming last week & kept getting clobbered by a swinger so we must have been both swimming CW, yet when I moved a lane over a fortnight ago that was ACW.
I don’t function at my best in the mornings, but I’ll have to pay more attention tomorrow.
Yeah, I always tend to swim up and down if I’m first in a lane. It means if someone else joins it doesn’t matter how fast each of us are relative to one another. But if a third person can be seen about to enter the pool I’ll just switch to the structure of the sign. Amazingly, I use my eyes to remain aware of what’s going on around me. Something that appears unfathomable to many.
Definitely the best way, and how all leisure centre pools I swim in operate. All my gym pools just go CW, CW, CW and there’s way more arm clashing in those pools. My only rationale for why my gym pools structure it that way is because I reckon Nuffield got a bulk discount for CW signs (as they’re the sames ones everywhere)!
I pushed off in his wake and my timer said 32s when he hit the wall so I’m assuming I gave him 2s before I went. That was on a return as he was working opposite wall from me.
Summer regionals was last weekend, next weekend is world schools.
I’ve seen a few fast people get in but this was a level up. I’d say what he looked like but, pro swimmers all look the same don’t they. Didn’t see any tats.
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Joking aside, I actually find it inspirational because when I do see these athletes knocking out sets I dream of you can see they aren’t killing themselves. Their stroke rate is something reasonable, they may be fit as fuck, but their technique looks achievable. Completely unlike, say running. Where sprint or marathon it’s just freakland.
30s for 50m is good (although very average in comparison to elites) but a 2:00 200m is a different discussion - I’d say for someone to do that in training does mark them as close to elite (compared to dropping off to 2:10 onwards)
AP International the weekend after next, (bank hol weekend) El Niño was accepted for 50Breast, back and fly but we are going to Girona now so he wont get to meet Adam Peaty and his mates.
At the hospital last week I jumped in a lane with a guy had a CWSC hat so got talking, hes Asian (didnt ask where from), studying at Guys, best swimmer ive ever been in a pool with. He is a sprinter, 23.07 for 50free, long and low 24s for fly, long. He had fins and was fly kicking 25s , all underwater in about 10seconds. His fly was beautiful to watch, just fluid. With fins 4 strokes a length
if two more often then not we will swim side by side, especially if the other person is a decent swimmer. Often get a lane to myself though so just swim up the centre line.
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