Water walking isn't at all uncommon here. My pool is 25 yards long and 4.5 feet deep in the middle (3 feet deep on the ends). It has 3 lanes. Generally, the walkers use one and the swimmers use the other two but there are mixes sometimes. Two couples walk the lanes nearly every day for 20-30 minutes. Most walkers are old like me BUT not all by any means. There's one guy who gets into the pool after his workout in the gym and does a swim/walk combo set for 20 minutes every day.
I know!! It's the only one I've ever seen but it's perfect for walking. You can kind of get some speed up and then you have to work hard for the middle part and then you get to pick up speed again.
Phew, I thought you were going to tell me all US pools were like that :-)
I've always quite liked the idea of visiting Seattle. Might not fit it in before surgery on Monday, though!
Maybe I'm going to the pool a the wrong time of day for the walking demographic? I'm going outside of office/school hours - maybe my pools are full of retired persons walking when I'm not there?
Well, now you ask about dolphins I'm a bit confused. I've only read about it before - mostly, I think, in context of a newspaper story about a Chinese pushy dad who was training his daughter to swim it by chucking her in the sea with her ankles tied together. But now I've tried Googling, I'm not sure I've remembered the details correctly.
The girl I saw was doing that sort of movement, but not completely submerged.
I've never considered how walkable pools were before, either! I can tell you that the indoor pool (Oasis Leisure Centre, Holborn) has much slippier tiles on its floor than the shallow pool (Gurnell Leisure Centre, Greenford)!
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I should swim more.
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It was... not the best of weathers. But I returned home without sustaining damage! Epicly long write up in the pipeline :)
Did you have a good weekend?
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Hold on, your pool has shallow ends and a deep middle? Not a shallow end and a deep end? My mind is officially blown!
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Come on over! I can get you a guest pass :)
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I've always quite liked the idea of visiting Seattle. Might not fit it in before surgery on Monday, though!
Maybe I'm going to the pool a the wrong time of day for the walking demographic? I'm going outside of office/school hours - maybe my pools are full of retired persons walking when I'm not there?
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Also, I've never considered pools in terms of their walkability before!
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The best I can come up with is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAIRWXYX3s8
The girl I saw was doing that sort of movement, but not completely submerged.
I've never considered how walkable pools were before, either! I can tell you that the indoor pool (Oasis Leisure Centre, Holborn) has much slippier tiles on its floor than the shallow pool (Gurnell Leisure Centre, Greenford)!
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