What say you?

Setting
Catalina pool sits in a middle class neighborhood behind a High School that sports the same name. I have been swimming there off and on for probably 25 or more years, know the manager (he's been in charge of the city pools for longer than 25 years), his kids, swam there when pregnant with my daughter, and am still friends with one of the former lifeguards who now heads the Aquathlon series through our parks and recreation department.
It's outside, not covered, and has limited lap hours. It's a yard pool and has eight to ten lanes. (I guess I have really never counted.) It's usually pretty clean.
Lately it has been used by more people as a large number of the city pools have closed due to budget cuts. Currently there are five pools open in Tucson that are run by the city. It costs only $1.50 to swim, or it's even cheaper if you buy a yearly pass.
For the past few years I have opted to swim at the Davis Monthan Air Force base pool, which is indoors, not crowded, and a meter pool. It is currently closed due to having to change out the drains so that no one will be sucked into them and drown or be seriously injured. Apparently this has happened a couple times so I am cool with the drains being replaced.

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The pool opens up for lap swim at 11:30 and stays open until 2:30. The high school also uses this pool for swim team. It reopens again at 5:00 until 7:00 p.m. I arrived at the pool before 11:30 and waited in line with others outside the door until it was unlocked by a lifeguard. I talked to Billy (pool manager) briefly and changed into my suit.
The last three or four lanes had already been "taken" by some regulars, mainly older guys in the neighborhood who probably swim there daily. There were a half dozen women my age or older also, and we grabbed the lanes closer to the locker rooms.
The pace is casual, and I wasn't "up" for a speed workout, even tho my training plan called for 8x100 with paddles after my 800 yard warm up and 300 yd. kick. The water was warmer than I liked and I knew I would have trouble pushing the pace.
I played a game of trying to stay with the skinny guy next to me, who isn't efficient, but just guts it out, kinda like how I swim. The only way I would "catch" him is on my flip turns, as he was all over the place had the thought more than once that I was rally happy I wasn't sharing a lane with him.

Fifteen minutes and 800 yards into my swim I noticed a half dozen very fit "youngsters" on deck, all decked in Splish swimwear and were clearly Triathletes. Very fit triathletes. I stopped to change out into my fins and noticed they were moving people around in the pool so they could swim together. I moved to one side of my lane, and thought maybe one would jump in but the girl stopped me and asked me to move to the next lane.

So...the question is: What do you think I did?

1.) Moved into the lane with skinny guy and avoided his awful flip turns.

2.) Agreed to circle swim and be "coached" by the guy that brought them in and had a great workout, kept up with them and
made some new triahlete friends.

3.) Agreed to share the lane, but said hell no to moving and informed her that my workout was just as important as theirs,
and in my 27 years of training for triathlons I had never thought of asking another swimmer move just so I could swim
with my "friends", or "team mates".

What d'ya think?