Swim Rant

Swimmers who have talent and refuse to work hard in practice and end up asking me at the end of the season, "What happened to me coach?"

you're swimming a super hard set, lots of heavy breathing going on while you rest, then you get blasted by waves of a brisk halitosis breeze from a person in your lane, you wretch from the stench is it garlic? were they out drinking late into the night? forget to brush? no mouthwash? did a pet crawl down there and die? the pace clock ticks 57, 58, 59 ... you push off to begin your next hard 100 and ponder whether you should let them know or not Is the halitosis regularly evident or is it periodic? It can be caused by ilness and such...even brushing and mouthwash won't kill it. No I don't suffer from halitosis it but I know catarrh is a real bad cause of stinky breath. U could kick them in the ribs mid length Andy, and enforce a "chlorine rinse" :rofl:

I think you got all of mine, except maybe the guys who do chin-ups on the starting block bars while you are trying to share a lane.

I think you got all of mine, except maybe the guys who do chin-ups on the starting block bars while you are trying to share a lane. Ok, half-serious question: what's up with the pool chin-ups? I can do those and I haven't been able to do a dryland chin-up in, in, well in a long time. Is it preening or is there some benefit?:dunno:

Here is a rant that I have experienced a lot this week. One day, my strokes feel great. I can zoom through sets. The next two days, it feels as though I have a totally different stroke, without trying to make any changes....uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuughhhhhhhhhhhhh

Here is a rant that I have experienced a lot this week. One day, my strokes feel great. I can zoom through sets. The next two days, it feels as though I have a totally different stroke, without trying to make any changes....uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuughhhhhhhhhhhhh I completely agree with the Wookie's rant. This seems to happen to me on a regular basis. What gives?

As one coach told me....AGE. Seriously, it may have something to do with how our bodies recover as we get older. Also, I have found that if I change time zones for work, then swim at a time later than I am used too...esp. at night, if feels funny.

anyone have anything to rant about

Once, I was doing lap swim in a 6-lane, 25-yard pool. When I got there, I think 3 of the lanes were taken, so I hopped into an empty one and started my workout. 45 minutes later, I was by myself in the pool. Then this one guy comes in, walks to the other end of the pool to get some equipment, and proceeds to dump them directly across the pool from me. I thought, well maybe he's going to move into a lane next to me. He couldn't possibly want to share a lane when there are five others available. So I hung out at the wall watching this and joking with the lifeguards, who were also chuckling at the idiocy of getting into the ONLY OCCUPIED LANE of an otherwise empty pool. Sure enough, the man sat down, put on his fins, and hopped into my lane. I figured asking him to move was more trouble than it was worth, so I scooted over to the next lane. I wasn't mad -- in the end, there were just two of us in the entire pool, so it wasn't a big deal. More like flabbergasted. And amused. I wonder if he got the hint when he realized that I'd moved. Wow....:shakeshead: Maybe he was lonely? Maybe he was scared to swim alone? Maybe he shouldn't breed? :rofl:

anyone have anything to rant about why if your a really slow lap swimmer would you ask to more athletic types to circle swim when you could have asked the small kid and his dad who are hogging another lane...granted we were in the slow lane but this same guy doesn't seem to mind jumping into the fast lane to swim real slow... I was a slow lap swimmer once but I wouldn't jump in with the guys that were doing hard work... ...damn undercover noodlers