Sorry that's happened, if you had kept your Y membership I would have suggested practice for an open water swim and just swim over the runt, then instead of giving up your membership it might have been revoked.

thats they best way to do it leave work at 10am or 3pm and you avoid everyone.

you could always enroll at USC and use the Blatt pool, or the Strom pool! Much better scenery, never busy :).

Really though, to use Strom, you HAVE to be a student. Blatt (the old PE center) may be flexible, or you may be able to pay... worth calling about at least.

I hear you, man. Same thing happened to me this summer. I went to the YMCA (with the BEST olympic pool in the area) and swam at 7:00AM... the master's group was just finishing, and the local kids' swim team was just getting started....they take up 4 of 6 lanes for 2 hours. After my 3-person-per-lane-swim, I went to spin class for an hour....and when I went back into the locker room, there were probably 40 yelling, giggling, primping elementary and middle school girls in there! Apparently the Y had a summer camp and they overtake the pool around 9:00AM. I thought I was going to lose my mind as I got ready for work! It was the worst morning...I vowed to not go back til the kiddies were back in school. And that seriously, was the kicker I needed to get my husband to take me on vacation :rolleyes: Hang in there...our kiddies are already back in school, thank God!

i am glad i am not the only one that sees this as a problem , i can't believe how many kids there are these days.

Where are the parents? The pool I go to has lap swim area and then a seperate kids pool. Guess I'm lucky because I have my kids go play on the water slide while I do laps. They have asked to swim laps with me but just a simple- no, this is for training- has worked . Most annoying thing so far is the kayak club that comes in, moves all the lane bouys and fills the pool with kayaks. But I guess grown ups can be inconsiderate also :)

My summer pool has this rather..large... older lady that doggy paddles in one of the lap lanes for like 45 minutes. She's large enough to have plenty of flotation and barely moves her legs or arms. I can swim 100 yards before she does one length.

Then there is the middle aged triathelete who ignores the pool schedule and tries to stay in the pool when it closes to the public and the master swimmers take over. He had the balls to hit me in the middle of a lap one time. Luckily one of the swimmers on the team is also a high ranking cop and let that be known when the dick started mouthing off ( from the other side of the pool, of course!)

Once school starts I am hoping the pool returns to normal too

Our pool was more of the same over the summer. At our Y, we have two pools - indoor & outdoor. The indoor is used by the camps so you'd think there wouldn't be too many kids outside. We had only one lane open, which we had to beg to keep open all day. Everyday, it was getting jumped on or getting hit with noodles, splash balls, whatever. Never once did the "lifeguards" correct the kids about the lap lane. I woiuld also bring my kids with me and my 2 oldest (both teens) would swim laps with me. The lifeguards would make them get out of the pool if there was an "adult swim" even thought they were in the middle of a set - because they're not "adults". I don't get it. Well, school started today, and the Y was only opening the outdoor pool at night - ugh!!!! After a lot of pleading and a very cooperative life guard in charge, we conviced them to open at 2. They just didn't get it that some people actually go to a pool to excercise!!!

I use those swims as practice for the open water on race day. With that mentality I have no problems plowing into people.:D

I had the same problem this past weekend. I get two of my 3 swims in the at 5 AM during the week...no issues. Everyone in the pool at that time of the morning has a purpose. But this past Sunday afternoon, I ran into two people. Both middle aged men who apparently didn't have a clue (or to have worked out in quite some time). They seemed baffled that I was so pissed off at running into them. After that I decided if I found anyone else in my lane it'd be time to practice an open water swim start, but no one else wanted to play. Hopefully my complaining to the guy at the desk (I swim at a Bally's if anyone's wondering) will have some impact. Somehow I doubt any of these folks would jump on a weight machine someone else is using without asking, but apparently, in their minds, swimming is different.

Braden