Does anyone else ever mentally hum a tune during swim practices and/or races? My personal favorite, when I am trying to summon energy from my exhausted body, is the 1812 Overture--I try to time it so the cannons start firing towards the latter part of the race.
I'd be interested to hear what goes through other peoples' minds as they swim, musical or otherwise.
Hey Skip,
Between your story about In-a-Gada-da-Vida and mine, from now on whenever I hear that song I will have a mental picture of you and I doing a water ballet together, and you'll be costumed as you were in the infamous Smedley Relay skit at convention a few years ago!
(BTW, I know "water ballet" is not the correct term--synchronized swimming is--but what we were doing at West Meade Swim Club back in the 60s was not a competition, just a sort of pageant the kids put on every year over Labor Day weekend. We were not good, and we were not competing, and it's a wonder none of us drowned! Mary Lee Watson was always standing on the deck during practice, hollering at us to point our toes!)
Meg
Hey Skip,
Between your story about In-a-Gada-da-Vida and mine, from now on whenever I hear that song I will have a mental picture of you and I doing a water ballet together, and you'll be costumed as you were in the infamous Smedley Relay skit at convention a few years ago!
(BTW, I know "water ballet" is not the correct term--synchronized swimming is--but what we were doing at West Meade Swim Club back in the 60s was not a competition, just a sort of pageant the kids put on every year over Labor Day weekend. We were not good, and we were not competing, and it's a wonder none of us drowned! Mary Lee Watson was always standing on the deck during practice, hollering at us to point our toes!)
Meg
