ARIZONA
- Scottsdale
Scottsdale YMCA
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Free with a Y card, outdoor pool, a few lane ropes.
The pool is heated to a toasty 90 degrees. I shit you not. No gutters.
Well, when it's 110 in the shade, I guess a 90 degree pool is refreshing. It's better than a 92 degree pool. It's better than hell- a little. But, really- why? Why Scottsdale Y, why?
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Cactus Aquatic & Fitness Center Pool
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Holy Christ on a cross people, this pool rocks. It costs a DOLLAR. (That's 1.10 in Euro). Two pools, on 25 yard, one fifty meter. All roped. paceclocks up the ass, kickboards.
The locker room could use a scrub.
I didn't believe my ears. A dollar to swim in heaven? Hey Chelsea Piers, you overpriced piece of shit pool in New York City ($50.00 to drop in for a swim), this is a POOL, you bitch! So much aquatic real estate that even when it's packed, everyone gets their own lane. And you get a tan. All for a dollar. SHAME ON YOU, EVERY OTHER POOL IN AMERICA! SHAME SHAME SHAME.
Tucson
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Hillenbrand Aquatic Center
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The works. A beauty.
Fifty meters with a huge masters team that let me join the noon workout.
A noon workout in
an outdoor pool in Arizona. Melanoma, here I come!
Thank you to the
Masters coach who let me work out with his team. We did 10 x 200 freestyle on
a moderate interval and I cried silent breaststroker's tears in my goggles.
Oh, I just revisted this
pool and I love it even more. Hours to the public for lap swim are M-F 11:30
to 1:30. The Masters team starts at noon.
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Lohse YMCA
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Free
with a Y card, 25 yards, kickboards, clocks, six lanes.
An
open roof. If there is a .000001 percent chance of lightening, they close
the pool, and the water is a YMCAesque warm.
Hillenbrand
is right up the street, but if you insist on going to the Y, at least stop
by the Hotel Congress for coffee. it's right around the corner. Do take advantage
of the jacuzzi in the locker room, though.
