via www.cnn.com: Catherine Garceau doesn't go to the pool anymore. The former Olympic swimmer has trained at many fitness centers over the years that smelled strongly of chlorine. While most would assume that means the water is clean, Garceau now knows it's just the opposite.
GMM: This is another "horror story" about chlorine in pools (particularly indoor pools) creating chloramines. It's meant to scare you, and it should. All competitive swimmers and fitness swimmers are familiar with "chlorine lung", that awful burning, chemical feeling deep in your chest when too much chlorine has been used to shock a pool. Pools are shocked after long periods of heavy traffic, resulting in too much human sweat, urine and feces. Yep, that's right, feces. You got to clean that crap out.
Chloramies are what cause that terrible smell, what causes chlorine lung, and it's bad for you.
Luckily there are products on the market that take care of chloramies and clear it out of enclosed pools.
My old coach at Swim MAC Carolina, Jeff Gaeckle, now heads up a new company: Paddock Evacuator. This is not a plug. Jeff happens to be the most innovative man in swimming. He's the guy behind the longest running swimming competition on TV, the Charlotte Ultraswim. Back in the 1980s he asked the question: Why isn't swimming on TV? He didn't like the answer, that it's boring, not TV-worthy, etc., and he changed it. Jeff got the Ultraswim aired on ABC, ESPN, FOX, and now Universal Sports. It has now been on tv for more than 23 years.
So, Jeff's new product, Paddock Evacuator, works. He already tested it at pools around the country, and competitons, including the Charlotte Ultraswim. Everyone from Michael Phelps to Ryan Lochte to Natalie Coughlin have benefited from cleaner, chloramie-free air, because Jeff helped solve this problem.
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