Just thought I would start a thread which didn't have deep philosophical overtones so that we all can have fun with the new forum software. Based upon personal experience, I will start a list of “You know you are a swimmer when …” with the following:
You know you are a swimmer when you leave work in the rain and you can smell the chlorine coming off of your hair.
Anyone care to add to the list?
Former Member
I love this thread so.... *bump*
You know you are a swimmer when ... your friends abandon all hope of ever seeing you again
Your friends have actually asked you, "why did you do two workouts today when we planned on going out?"
Your tops become too small (across the back) and your pants become too big.
You stand in front of the bathroom mirror at work and practice your stroke pulls
You have a swimming "journal" which chronicals everywork out.
You are the only 20 something year old you know that doesn't dye her hair, because there is no point.
You know your suit size in speedo, tyr, nike and they are all different.
You'd rather swim a 400 IM than a 400 free (or is that just me).
It's easier to catch your breath if you keep swimming (or swim down EZ) than it is to stand on the side of the pool
You know what EZ, Fl, Fr, BK, BR, IM, K, SW, etc. means
Pullling with paddles delightes you
Pulling in general delights you
Kicking delights you
You smile when you find the quote "Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated", because you finally have a response to your family, friends and co-workers
You are massochistic enough to request to your masters coach that you spend practice working on fly because you are determined to swim those 200 flys in practice without cheating
The sight of 200 fly written on the workout board simply makes you sigh and roll your eyes
Your friend in an attempt to see you agrees to attend a swim practice with you and looks at your swim bag and says what more than a suit do you need ... duh, googles (multiple pairs of course), pull buoy, kick board, 4 or 5 caps (never know when those things will rip), an extra suit, paddles, fins, and all your shower stuff
You shower at home and think, hmmm ... this is weird
Your masters teammates become your family
You have a favorite lane (it's lane four - I swim in a 5 lane pool)
You join a 24 hour gym with a 25 yard pool because your old gym didn't open until 5:30 am and that wasn't early enough, not to mention their 20 yard pool sucks
You don't understand why any health club would build a pool of any length less than 25 yards
You race teammates after practicing for an hour and a half for fun, and because you "owe" them for requesting a fly workout
You re-calculater your race times for those end of practice races, because afterall it was the end of an hour and a half practice, you had a wall start, so that's a minimum of 10 seconds
You write messages here and read them
To add on to the whole big back thing. You know you're a swimmer when you don't care that your back is so large. You care more about how your body should be to help you swim better and less about how you look to other people. I have the dreaded really long torso and short legs. Hard to find clothes but great when I'm swimming. :cool:
Sorry thought of another one ...
When you are measured for a bridesmaid dress and the measurement of your chest is three sizes higher than your waist. So you have to order a dress that is ridduculously big every but the chest and hope that all the swimming you will do in the next seven months + won't increase the size of that back too much!
You know you're a swimmer when
...you come back with wet hair and your students say, "Did you go swimming again?"
... you get excited looking at meet sheets and meet programs
... you meet the man you'd marry at the pool!
... your Labrador Retriever can swim 100m in 1:37.
... you don't need to look at a thermometer to know the exact temperature of the pool.
... for Christmas you ask for a pool pass.
... you don't need makeup because you're face is already colored with raccoon eyes and racing stripes (goggle straps); lest we forget the racing stripes on our feet from flip flops!
... you can't think of anything else to do in a pool besides workout.
... you can talk about the *** without being embarrassed.
... everything in life tells us to move East, but we can't leave Kerry O'Brien!
you know you're a swimmer when:
You wait anxiously for the UPS Delivery Truck to arrive with your Speedo USMS Swimmer's Backpack that you ordered from Kast-a-Way Swimwear. (I haven't gotten mine yet)
You lose your cool (and sometimes the happy) when you receive an e-mail from a teammate saying that the meet you were looking forward to attending was cancelled, due to complications.
You post in this fabulous thread during your work shift at the radio studio.
You're glad that football season ended yesterday. (FINALLY!!)
You look forward to Intense Summer Training
You're happy when Swimming Season is here!
Originally posted by susanehr
You can't understand why people think placing a pull bouy betwen your legs is obscene. With a bit of a southern accent someone thought I said pool boy, but they still didn't understand what I was talking about.
Yabbut ... Maybe the pool boy WANTS to be your pull buoy! :) :eek: :)
You can't understand why people think placing a pull bouy betwen your legs is obscene. With a bit of a southern accent someone thought I said pool boy, but they still didn't understand what I was talking about.
