GET OUT OF MY POOL!!!!!!!!!!!

So I have not been running due to hip issues, so I have taken up swimming as a cardio replacement. There are a few people who come and use the pool. The one that has been there constantly is the guy in the white swim cap, he is some one who swims for real, and he can do the fancy turns and all that jazz, quite impressive I might add. There have also been a few times 2 guys that I will call “thugs” I have no idea if this is true or not, it is a snap judgment made by me. Thug 1 knows how to swim (sorta) and sometimes comes by himself, thug 2 is learning to swim (swims loudly) so on days that thug 2 is there then it is “Teach a thug to swim day” Last week, “guy in black Speedo” showed up, he is a hairy gentleman who uses the sauna. There is also and older guy that uses the hot tub we will call him “old guy in hot tub”. Oh Creepy guy has been there some times too, he is creepy because when he was using the steam room he stood at the door and watch us swim. The came out and sat on the bench to watch us swim, he doesn’t swim well. Some of the other random people who use the steam room are interesting too, but they are not in the pool so I don’t really care.

So now that we have most if the cast of people in my adventures in swimming here is what went down today. Most morning it is just my training partner and I at the pool, some times it is just me at the pool. “Thugs” 1 and 2 are there, usually on Fridays. Guy in the white swim cap comes in some mornings, not really picked up on which days he is there but sometime. They clean the pool on Fridays at the gym so the water is on the let’s say effen cold side, not all bad tends to cut down on the time wasting maneuvers that I have developed at the end of the laps that do with the style I like to call my “trying not to drowned” stroke, it is a hybrid freestyle, crawl, doggy paddle type stroke. It does get me from one end of the pool to the other so I guess it works.

Today is Friday and I have no idea what the temp of the water in the pool was like when I got there this morning, keep in mind that this at 4:45am, yes am, in the morning. The pool was already in use by some lady in a blue suit, I have never seen her here before, as well as the guy in the white swim cap and “Thugs” 1 & 2. Blue suite swims like the guy in the white swim cap, she know what she is doing in the water, so they share a lane. The other lane was in use by the “thugs”, now I am not sure how to share a lane with more then 2 people and while the “thugs”, I am sure are quiet nice I was not about to ask them if I can use their lane as well. So crap now what do I do, Training partner is running today so she will be busy for at least 30 min. I know I will use the steam room, kinda like working out you get sweaty, and that is what matter right. So I shower before entering the pool area and head to the steam room, crap there is no steam in the steam room, they were not done cleaning it yet. It clearly state that the steam room opens at 5:00am. It is now 5:00am and there is no steam. Crap, now what, how about the sauna, maybe the steam room will be done soon and I can move over there. So, in to the room that I think smells some what like an old shoe, it is warm but not to warm, I kinda stand there due to the fact that none of the benches were in place. All the time watching the bodies in the pool swim, what is the reason behind me getting my butt out of bed. About 10 min in to my stay in the smelly old shoe room some one comes in to share the space with me. So out I go to see of the steam room is up and running…but no such luck, ok now what to do. I still have about 15 min to kill before training partner is ready to go. So I make my way to the hot tub to find “old guy” in the hot tub, he opens one eye to see who is entering his tub and tells me that it is not very warm. He is not wrong it was mostly a lukewarm tub. So, there I sat in the lukewarm tub willing the “thugs” to be done so I can swim for a little bit before it is time for us to go, but no one finished up. The lukewarm tub shuts off the “old guy” gets out, the guy in the white swim cap gets out of the pool, but at last it was time for me to meet my training partner so we can leave. So no swimming for me today, I hope that I can get to swim next week.