I sent the following email (with the above subject line) to by boss's boss last night after coming home from the pool. His son swims on the club team which has invaded my pool.
Can you please remove your club team from my swimming pool. It's humbling, if not down right embarrassing to swim next to them. Are they really that fast, or am I really that slow?
How long before your pool is back up? I don't think I can get back in the pool with them.
Holy crap those kids are fast. Felt like I was going backwards. Four lanes with 4+ kids per lane, and every one of them absolutely dusting me lap after lap. Back, butterfly, breast, didn't matter what stroke they were doing. No way in hell I could even think of holding their pace.
I'm used to swimming in a nearly empty pool, quite often I'm the only one there, especially near the end. I can count on one hand the number of times I've had to share a lane with anyone. Yes, I'm lucky in that respect. So to now swim in a crowded pool with a ton of fast kids, extremely humbling.
As cold as the lakes still are, open water swimming is looking that much more appealing.
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Those kids are amazing. I went to the pool with my son and his friend ONCE. His friend swims on the swim team and can do a 100 faster than I can swim a 50! Amazing.
MY Ow swim just opened on 5/18. The temp is 51 degrees. I thought about heading out this weekend to try it out. (If nothing else to see if the ole wetsuit still fits). LOL.
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