Next Swims:Mon-Fri 6:15 am and 5pm
Saturday/Sunday 8 am and Noon
Saturday/Sunday 8 am and Noon
Last Swim: Sunday at 8 am
Water Temp: 62
Air Temp: 49 per van-o-meter, 64 per mitch-o-meter
Clarity: Beautiful, almost Caribbean.
Waves: flat with a little current
Kru: Patriarch, Mr. Bubble, Magic Mike, Mr. Anonymous, Brick, Panini, Kim, Jenny, Luna Laguna, Fred, Handyman Hank, (think I got everyone)
Water Temp: 62
Air Temp: 49 per van-o-meter, 64 per mitch-o-meter
Clarity: Beautiful, almost Caribbean.
Waves: flat with a little current
Kru: Patriarch, Mr. Bubble, Magic Mike, Mr. Anonymous, Brick, Panini, Kim, Jenny, Luna Laguna, Fred, Handyman Hank, (think I got everyone)
Relative Newcomers: Mark and Jeff
Another one of those days where no one wanted to get out of the water. Clear blue skies, clear, calm, (relatively) warm water. Plus the added bonus of the bright colors of leaves changing on the shoreline trees. Better than picture perfect.
Dragonfly's latest post about the need for navigational rules has become a self fulfilling prophecy. I've had near misses with Pool Noodle a couple of times last week, and today an even closer near miss with Kim. In all three cases, it was a near miss of head on collision.
In response to Dragonfly's query for thoughts:
- Yes, freestyle always has the right of way over breast stroke - it only makes sense. However, deep down, it feels like that's like saying that drivers who close their eyes half the time have the right of way over those who keep theirs open all the time. Either way - I guess it's defensive driving.
- Right of way means right of way - if Hank ran into you from the right side, then he had the right of way and you should have yielded. If he came at you from the left, then you had the right of way.
- However, as with many things - how likely is it that people will comply with right of way rules if there's no one around to enforce them? I like the example of the Dutch towns of Makkinga and Drachten, which have purposefully removed traffic controls and left it up to individual drivers to negotiate with other drives. It's turned driving into a gezellig experience.
Just because leaves are changing doesn't mean the summer is over. Looking forward to more beautiful morning swims like this morning's.
4 comments:
I would give backstroke primary right of way, then freestyle, and then breast. If you're doing fly, well, then you have right of way over everyone because you're likely an insane person and should be avoided at all cost.
If you can throw your arms over your head and kick both feet at the same time, you can do the butterfly! It's foolish but fun!
Mr A clobbered me one morning as I was doing the backstroke going out and he was coming back in. You'd think with the size of the lake we'd be able to steer clear of each other...
Huh....pm swimmers never raise they're stroke in anger or folly....guess we're a more accepting gracious being.
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