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Originally Posted by tophcfa
Swimming laps in any Villages pool other than one of the 11 regulation length sports pools (the Savannah pool does not qualify) with swim lanes and flags doesn’t cut it. You spend way more time turning than swimming, and without lanes and flags you can’t swim backstroke. Water walkers, on the other hand, can easily use both the adult and family pools (there are about 100 of them) and should not be taking up very limited and valuable swim lanes in the sports pools.
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Perhaps the very limited resource of the sports pools should not be spent on inefficient lap swimming at about 10 swimmers max. Perhaps the sports pools should be scheduled for water volleyball or water aerobics to service the maximum number of people (well over 50). Why should a sports pool be reserved for just ten people and leave 50 others sitting on the deck?
OR, perhaps the sports pools should be shared among all the groups wanting to use them. Give some time to lap swimming, make some room for walkers, have a couple hours throughout the day for water aerobics, and try to satisfy the never-ending demand of water volleyball.
I can't see the lap swimmers winning the battle to make the sports pools their own.
As for the adult pools - first come first served seems to make sense. If a group comes in and takes up all the space, so be it. However, if a group comes in and finds there are already people in the pool then the group can suck it up and schedule time in a sports pool. What the group CANNOT do is demand the adult pool for themselves.