Right after I wrote that last post about not being able to swim because the Gold’s Gym in Orem had drained their pool, I decided that was just another convenient excuse and that I should figure out how to swim anyway.\u00c2\u00a0 So I looked up another location of the popular Gym and found one quite close to home.<\/p>\n
Joe and Kyle used to work and go to the gym in American Fork prior to joining Bungee Labs.\u00c2\u00a0 They still tell stories about how nice the AF gym is compared to the crappy Orem gym.\u00c2\u00a0 From the outside, they are right.\u00c2\u00a0 It is definitely newer than the Orem gym, but it must get a lot more traffic.\u00c2\u00a0 The locker room was trashed when I got there.\u00c2\u00a0 Toilet paper was stuck to the floor in several locations.\u00c2\u00a0 It was quite disgusting.<\/p>\n
The pool is roughly the same size as the pool in Orem.\u00c2\u00a0 Three lanes wide, twenty-five yards long.\u00c2\u00a0 The lanes in Orem are fairly skinny, compared to the nice lanes I grew up with at Cottonwood Heights.\u00c2\u00a0 The lanes in American Fork seem even skinnier.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t think two guys with arms as long as mine could swim past each other in the same lane without having to modify their strokes.<\/p>\n
The patio area around the pool in American Fork is much smaller than in Orem and it makes it feel very tight.\u00c2\u00a0 I also realized that the size of the overall gym is larger, which means there are more people at the gym for the same size pool, hottub, steam room, and sauna.\u00c2\u00a0 That means the pool areas are probably more crowded in general.\u00c2\u00a0 It wasn’t crowded tonight, though.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a ghost town.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess there are usually better things to do on a Friday night.<\/p>\n
The pool in American Fork is also setup a bit strangely.\u00c2\u00a0 The slow lane is the lane furthest from the locker rooms, and has no entrances.\u00c2\u00a0 It has no ladders and no staircases.\u00c2\u00a0 How are the slow people (typically extremely large handicapped old people) supposed to get all the way to that lane?\u00c2\u00a0 They don’t.\u00c2\u00a0 And to make it worse, the fast lane is the lane closest to the locker rooms, and it has both a ladder and a wide staircase entrance.\u00c2\u00a0 The ladder and staircase cause extremely strange wave patterns as you swim, making it a horrible place for a fast lane.\u00c2\u00a0 Luckily, everyone seems to ignore the signs.\u00c2\u00a0 The old fat people that can barely walk use the fast lane, and the swimmers use the slow lane.\u00c2\u00a0 At least that’s what happened tonight.\u00c2\u00a0 The only other people in the entire gym were these two old people that had 4 or 5 sets of floatation devices and were mostly just resting in the pool while I swam.<\/p>\n
500 Free warm-up
\n5 x 100 Free @ 2:05 (coming in at 1:15)
\n200 Free warm-down
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\n1200 yards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Right after I wrote that last post about not being able to swim because the Gold’s Gym in Orem had drained their pool, I decided that was just another convenient excuse and that I should figure out how to swim … Continue reading