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__steve__ — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 09:33:55 GMT

When snorkeling while vacationing in the tropics you bring your usual swimming gear, but with a GoPro attached to the snorkel. When free diving " " "

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Redbird Alum — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 12:32:15 GMT

... Worse yet, our masters team folded and that episode in life seems sadly forever ended. That last bit is indeed, sad. SO, pick yourself up, keep working out, and start looking for anther team, or at least a couple swim buddies!

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Sojerz — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 09:06:46 GMT

I miss the feeling of getting out of the pool tired after a workout and the sense of accomplishment. But more than that i miss the 10-15 minutes at 7 am chatting with friends in the shower and locker room after practices. It all ended so abruptly, just completely shutting down overnight. Chatting on messenger just isn't the same. Worse yet, our masters team folded and that episode in life seems sadly forever ended.

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Redbird Alum — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:28:36 GMT

... when you can't figure out why your hair has any curl. ... when you take a hot shower and smell the pool coming out of your pores.

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Karl_S — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 06:26:58 GMT

... when you take a hot shower and smell the pool coming out of your pores. I miss that!

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mjtyson — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 07:34:12 GMT

Some just fix the your to you're...my head is exploding here! YES! I can't respond until this is fixed. Killing me.

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Former Member — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 13:05:25 GMT

Yet another sign I am not a swimmer. Yeah, I'm with you on this. I love afternoon swimming.

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Former Member — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 11:14:53 GMT

When you go and buy one of those special mattresses. When the first sign of time-off swimming is clear sinuses. When you sniff your swimwear because you miss the pool. (Ok, I'll stop now.)

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Former Member — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 11:06:49 GMT

When you jump in and inform the lifeguard, to the nearest quarter of a degree, what the water temperature is. When you know, to the nearest quarter of a second, the split between the "synchronized" clocks at each end of the pool. When you tighten the lane ropes.

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Former Member — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 10:38:21 GMT

When the smell of chlorine raises your HR significantly. When you are walking about town doing arm activation movements. When you don't need to look for the wall anymore.

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Karl_S — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 08:01:44 GMT

When you consider 5:00AM sleeping in...... Yet another sign I am not a swimmer.

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Patrick W. Brundage — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 05:54:32 GMT

When you don't need to look for the wall anymore.I know I shouldn't ... but I still do!!

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Calvin S — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 11:54:04 GMT

Someone just fix the your to you're...my head is exploding here!

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Allen Stark — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 12:21:03 GMT

You dream about swim meets. Unfortunately most of them have me forgetting my suit or something.

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ForceDJ — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 10:01:07 GMT

WOW! I canâ€™t believe the forum servers even store posts for 18 years. How many pages back did you have to go to find that? Dan

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Karl_S — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 08:30:05 GMT

.. anything to get the feeling of immersion even if the water temp will be around 40F. Evidently I am not a swimmer.

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67King — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 04:55:47 GMT

When you consider 5:00AM sleeping in......

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orca1946 — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 02:32:48 GMT

To all that matter --- keep some form of this forum platform for us that look forward to our interactions with other like minded swimmers in the new digital platform!!

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ForceDJ — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 02:32:12 GMT

Interesting. It may be that they just want to get away from managing the platform. Several years ago RUNNERâ€™S WORLD had a discussion forum platform. I had been active on it for years. Seemed to me that it was valuable asset to them (RW). There were lots of ads on it so businesses were paying them money for that. Although USMS forums donâ€™t have ads. But then for some reason they turned management of it over to active.com but it was still the RW forums. Active sponsors lots of online event registration, and other stuff like that. They screwed it all up. The discussion forums kinda went to hell and a and hand basket. Soon thereafter they (Active) shut them down with RWâ€™s approval. Dan

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Patrick W. Brundage — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 01:28:48 GMT

WOW! I canâ€™t believe the forum servers even store posts for 18 years. How many pages back did you have to go to find that? DanI went back to the last page I could find and looked for a post that might still have relevance. I guess I was bored! But, maybe the message to USMS digital leaders is that we once had, for almost two decades, a lively, engaging forum. I think we could have it again. I think a private/purpose-focused forum is better than Facebook or Instagram. Those platforms are fine for broadcasting, but the business/social world of 2020 and beyond is all about narrowcasting and hyper-segmenting content to the audience. I gather that USMS is putting in place a new digital platform ... I just hope it will have discussion / collaboration features like the Forums do/did and that USMS will promote the heck out of it. A committed and engaged community is a terrible thing to waste. As we probably still won't have much in the way of IRL events in 2021, it's now or never to rebuild a vibrant, digitally engaged, global, Masters swimming community.

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Patrick W. Brundage — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 11:22:43 GMT

Resurrecting an ancient post to see if there's any life left in the forums. You know you're a swimmer when you're so tired from swimming you're not even able to spell properly. Less snarky, but all 2020, you know you're a swimmer when your pools are closed due to another COVID-19 lockdown, it's only been 3 days and you're fantasizing about jumping in a nearly frozen lake on New Year's Day ... anything to get the feeling of immersion even if the water temp will be around 40F.

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Former Member — Fri, 15 Mar 2002 17:46:48 GMT

You know you are a swimmer when you are draining a huge pot of pasta over the kitchen sink and you smell the chlorine wafting off your skin.