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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Now that we are talking about shopping .... I recently had a miserable experience...
We were at Disney last week. After we checked out of the resort, my wife asked if we could go to "Downtown Disney". I made the mistake of saying OK.
This was nothing more than a series of stores selling anything and everything with Disney logos, characthers, etc on it. After walking in and out of at least 20 stores all day, I realized how much I dislike shopping and my wallet smelled like burnt rubber. My wife said it was her favorite day of the whole trip though.... so I kept my mouth shut.
I would have rather swam an 8 mile open water swim wearing Geek's clown suit in molten McDonalds lava, while kids on noodles blocked my progress, Mr. Moose rode on my back working VO2Max shampoo into my hair and you know who swam alongside babbling about being a late bloomer.
Oh, and I would even do fly.
Now that we are talking about shopping .... I recently had a miserable experience...
We were at Disney last week. After we checked out of the resort, my wife asked if we could go to "Downtown Disney". I made the mistake of saying OK.
This was nothing more than a series of stores selling anything and everything with Disney logos, characthers, etc on it. After walking in and out of at least 20 stores all day, I realized how much I dislike shopping and my wallet smelled like burnt rubber. My wife said it was her favorite day of the whole trip though.... so I kept my mouth shut.
I would have rather swam an 8 mile open water swim wearing Geek's clown suit in molten McDonalds lava, while kids on noodles blocked my progress, Mr. Moose rode on my back working VO2Max shampoo into my hair and you know who swam alongside babbling about being a late bloomer.
Oh, and I would even do fly.
