iron eyes for the normal guy

what's up w/ swimming - by d

swimming in new england is a total racket. yeah, there are a fair amount of pools, but each have their own crazy schedule and ticks. the jfk pool in somerville is where i do master swimming w/ coach p tuesdays and thursdays. other than those times you almost never know when this pool will be open. a couple saturdays ago after i had a good ride i was going to go swimming that afternoon where their schedule said they would be open. it was closed, maybe it was too nice of a day and the lifeguards wanted to enjoy the weather. the past 2 saturdays the pool have been closed as well. it seems like whenever there is any holiday that week, the pool seemed to be closed randomly. i meet up with coach p this past wednesday after he was planning on having a coaching session, but the night before he realized it was a spring break and the pool was supposed to be closed. as we meet their, you guessed it, it's open. you have the bargain of the mit pool which is 12 bucks a pop. yeah it's nice, but who has $12 to pay every-time you go swimming. there is arlington boys & girls club, brookline, watertown all have their pools, but you need to be a rocket scientist to figure when they are open for regular lap swimming. i was visiting my friend ken in austin and there was a pool about a quarter a mile away that was totally nice and totally free - why are there no free pools w/ laps in taxachusetts?

dL

posted by supersonique @ 4:06 PM