Okay... I know, this is perhaps a little bit of a tongue in cheek question...
So often I hear people complaining about not enough 'distance' swims in zone and national meets, or meets in general.
Just having been involved in organizing my firat more serious swim meet I have to ask... Almost noone, or very few people want to swim the 200 fly, or 200 Brast or 200 back?
Is that not 'distance enough?'
I just got a zone meet medal in 200 back, not because I'm fast, but because noone wants to swim it.
How about some real endurance testing events like 400 or 800 Fly? 800 IM? How about a postal 800 IM?
Or 30 minute stroke check off challenge? One for each stroke, rather than just freestyle?
Okay, now that I tossed this out there, I think I'm gonna duck and run. ;)
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Originally posted by aquageek
... shopping for jeans with my wife and daughters is pretty awful also.
It is a little known fact that THIS was the EXACT inspiration and motivation behind the very first credit card...something a man could hand to his wife in the morning and send them on their way, all in hopes of escaping personal involvement in such an outing. The idea was that, upon return the dutiful, and now shopped-out, wife would return the slightly used card to the husband.
Things never work out as planned though, do they?
Originally posted by aquageek
... shopping for jeans with my wife and daughters is pretty awful also.
It is a little known fact that THIS was the EXACT inspiration and motivation behind the very first credit card...something a man could hand to his wife in the morning and send them on their way, all in hopes of escaping personal involvement in such an outing. The idea was that, upon return the dutiful, and now shopped-out, wife would return the slightly used card to the husband.
Things never work out as planned though, do they?
