{"id":33529,"date":"2025-09-03T08:14:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=33529"},"modified":"2025-09-04T16:49:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:49:15","slug":"swimming-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/03\/swimming-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"SWIMMING AROUND THE WORLD"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nTokyo had Houston-level humidity and was 96 degrees. The water at the Tokyo swimming pool was at 32C, the lifeguard told me. I googled 32C; that was 90F! It was like swimming in miso soup. Plus, I had to wear a bathing cap, which made the miso even warmer. (You have to wear a cap in Japan.)<\/p>\n

Then I found an indoor Tokyo pool, which was cooler, temp-wise. My son the musician sneaked me into his hotel, and on floor 15 there was a three-lane lap pool. No kiddie area. Just lanes. That’s class. I had to wear a bathing cap there, too.<\/p>\n

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I was visiting my daughter’s family in Chicago this summer. It was 93 degrees. No lockers at the Chicago pool. I changed into my swimsuit in the locker room, but I couldn\u2019t store clothes or valuables. I had to take everything to the pool deck. I said to a lifeguard, “What — no lockers?\u201d Alfred E. Neuman-style. The guard said nobody would steal anything.<\/p>\n

A couple hundred people —\u00a0 like in Tokyo — tried to chill in the heat. Nobody stole anything.<\/p>\n

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Cumberland Pool<\/p><\/div>\n

Cumberland Pool in Cleveland Heights has 14 lap lanes.\u00a0 Name a pool with more lap lanes. The city adds lanes and reduces the kiddie area, probably because Cleveland Heights is boomer central, with many elderly lap swimmers and lap joggers.<\/p>\n

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My go-to Cleveland swimming pool is the Cleveland Skating Club, which has six indoor lap lanes (and a skating rink). I never have to share a lane, year-round. That seclusion is worth the club dues. I don’t like playing rugby in the water.<\/p>\n

Maybe I’ll install a one-person “endless” lap pool\/tub where my dining room is. But I haven’t heard much, good or bad, about “endless” tubs.<\/p>\n

One last thing . . . in Japan nobody wears flip-flops at pools. It’s all bare feet.<\/p>\n

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