article in USMS Swimmer Magazine: May / June 2005 Issue

I'll say it again, sometimes I'm just too damn TIRED! Here I'll illustrate a typical day of late: Go to be around 10:30ish and wake up at least twice with any of three kids for any number of reasons. Wake up at 6:30 and go to work. Get home at 3:30ish. Take son to swimming from 4:30-5:30 Eat dinner. Swim 6:30-8:30 (includes drive time) Home and put read books, say prayers, kids to bed. Again, I'm tired!

Originally posted by SwiminONandON haha ... actually I'm growing more and more concerned with the size of my ever expanding shoulders and upper back ... but there's nothing that can be done so I embrace them ... I also must say I don't go through swimsuit trauma like my friends I'm in suits year round so I am fully aware of what I look like in a suit and I don't think there is a swimsuit season ... Hey, I for one like that V-shaped look on a woman - be proud of it. (Of course if the V-shape is upside down.....:( )

I think sometimes I'm just too damn tired! :p

Originally posted by Seagurl51 Just for participating in the highjacking of this thread, I felt compelled to comment on the orginal post. Wow! So you girls actually notice when you highjack these threads. I can't even count how many threads I've read that the three (four?) of you have taken over. No worries though, I find all of it very entertaining to say the least. As far as the original article; More reasons to hook up at swim practice!

Originally posted by Karen Duggan I'll say it again, sometimes I'm just too damn TIRED! I'm 25. Never too tired! :D

Originally posted by 69gscal Wow! So you girls actually notice when you highjack these threads. I can't even count how many threads I've read that the three (four?) of you have taken over. No worries though, I find all of it very entertaining to say the least. As far as the original article; More reasons to hook up at swim practice! There's actually five (and some boys too) but we're open to anyone else you wants to get involved. It's like a cult and we're all chanting "JOIN US." We haven't taken over that many threads, have we? I know the one's we started are pretty much a mess (a very, fun, lively mess), but I hope that we haven't imposed too much on everyone here. Glad that you find us entertaining though!

Too many articles like that and the darn pool will get way too crowded! ;)

No need for Viagara, just start swimming!

Originally posted by SwiminONandON I don't find that surprising at all. The more you workout the more self-confident you are ... there's also an increase in energy level ... I do find it surprising that women who work out 6-7 days a week have a decreased level of percieved sexual attractiveness ... but I credit that to being more obsessive and likely exercising that much due to poor body image rather than exercising that much because of the desire to swim a 200 free in under 2:00 ... I'm actually more interested in how I swim when I'm at the pool than in how I look (but a sub 2-min. 200? in my dreams!). Of course, the benefits to my appearance aren't lost on me, but if I swam for that reason, I'd get so frustrated b/c I recognized at about the age of 30something (I'm a slow learner...) that I'd never be satisfied with the size of my thighs and such, and that life is too short to worry about stuff like that anyway.

Here's how it usually goes... Someone starts highly informative swimming related thread.... One of our four (or five) entertaining friends starts a discussion about a hopelessly romantic prostitute who is lusting after a moose with a low VO2max who is sleeping his way through the moose population he has stashed on islands all while wearing a clown suit and drinking hot coffee and discussing Barenaked Ladies and other popular bands.... Somehow, Heather ends up with Aaron.... :D And I agree with 69gscal.... I'm never too tired. In fact, I have told my wife that I will always bypass sleep for it. Even if I am already asleep in the middle of the night..... wake me up!:cool: