Known route around all of these problems: happening to have free access to an outdoor pool which is open at night and a person who will go with me and chat while we both backstroke laps. This would be great but I don’t happen to have access to a free outdoor pool that is open in the dark.
Make friends with someone who has a backyard pool and invite yourself to swim laps with them. I don’t actually know where you live and what the climate is like there, but even if it’s colder, you can at least swim for part of the year. Ask everyone you know if they know anyone who has a backyard pool, and invite yourself.
Ideal long-term solution: build your own backyard pool. Probably not financially feasible right now, though.
I live in North Carolina at the moment and the weather would be fine for swimming. I don’t think I know anyone with a pool or have a good way to filter potential new friends for pool ownership (and I live in an apartment complex, so I can’t just stroll around the block looking for a pool-having house to turn up at with a plate of cookies). Suggestions?
ETA: I fail. I didn’t even think of asking the local meetup group if anybody in it has a pool before I posted this. (That said, since I don’t drive and I don’t think any of them live really close, it’d be more of an imposition than just allowing me to let myself into their backyard, but it’s worth a try.)
Make friends with someone who has a backyard pool and invite yourself to swim laps with them. I don’t actually know where you live and what the climate is like there, but even if it’s colder, you can at least swim for part of the year. Ask everyone you know if they know anyone who has a backyard pool, and invite yourself.
Ideal long-term solution: build your own backyard pool. Probably not financially feasible right now, though.
I live in North Carolina at the moment and the weather would be fine for swimming. I don’t think I know anyone with a pool or have a good way to filter potential new friends for pool ownership (and I live in an apartment complex, so I can’t just stroll around the block looking for a pool-having house to turn up at with a plate of cookies). Suggestions?
ETA: I fail. I didn’t even think of asking the local meetup group if anybody in it has a pool before I posted this. (That said, since I don’t drive and I don’t think any of them live really close, it’d be more of an imposition than just allowing me to let myself into their backyard, but it’s worth a try.)