Swim Rant

My breaststroke looks just like Geek's.

I encountered someone like that last winter. The pool was sectioned into three parts, with swim classes going on in two of them and lane swim in the remaining third. A guy was doing a very wide double-arm frog-kick back stroke (reverse *** stroke?) straight up the middle, taking up most of the section. I pointed out the circling sign (up both sides towards the deep end, both sides converge and go down the middle) to him and suggested it might reduce collisions as there were so many of us trying to share this section. Blank stare in response, then he proceeds to weave his way up the center again, against the traffic, forcing people to scurry out of the way. So, I went up one of the sides, passed him, and basically just swam right over whichever of his limbs were in the way. Strangely, he left shortly afterwards...

Some of you will know that I have a slipped disc (actual extrusion) which is (so very) slowly shrinking. This Saturday 27th, there were quite a few people in my (public) pool's lane swim so I decided to warm up very slowly and really take my time. About 30' into my swim, I started feeling really good, flowing easily and doing what felt like a fantastic DPS. You know the feeling, right? Those (rare) days when you feel you're slipping through the water, fast with practically very little effort, God's in His Heaven and All's right with the World?. So I started pulling a little bit more, catching more (better?) water and really EVF'ing and enjoying it like the dickens. Most of you know what happens next. Right? It's a given......... A group of try-athletes (no typo there) gets in the pool and take up all the space. (For our lane swims, the six-lane pool is roped into four 1.5 widths-wide lanes. One would think, wouldn't one, that there'd be enough space for safe passing? One (of us swimmers) would also think that if one (the other one) took more than 20m in a 25m pool to overtake another slower swimmer, then one (the other one) should not be trying to overtake at all, specially if one (the overtaking one) is using a straight arm recovery that is parallel to the water (OK, not parallel but 3 degrees maybe) and fish-tailing and swerving like Mel Gibson (or Heather Locklear) on a happy night. So, I'm swimming at about 80% power, nice and long and I see a swimmer coming at me right smack dab down the middle of the wide-ish lane and I'm practically scraping the wall to my right when out of the blue that idiot (the other one) swerves right into my path thinking that he could overtake in less than 2 meters. I had to suddenly convert into an eel (or a Sidewinder) to twist out of the way. Three hours later (thankfully back home) my back is frozen. I can't unbend beyond 90 degrees and I'm still in bed (Monday) on painkillers and smelling to High Heavens of Rub-a-dub-dub A535 (Cold and Hot) :notworking:

My breaststroke looks just like Geek's. I don't think that's possible. He patented his (fortunately).

Hard workout...head to showers to wash down and some old geezer is stretching his hamstrings, naked, in the hot tub...not what I wanted to see before breakfast...DUDE!

Just watched this Seinfeld last night. Kramer had a swimming rant. Kramer: Well I had been swimming for three hours and I was in a real groove so I decided to keep going. But at ten they start the aquasonics! Thirty-five geriatrics throwing elbows. It was like I was swimming through a flabby armed spanking machine! :laugh2:

Middle of a heat wave here in San Diego. It has gotten up to 100* for the last 3 days at my house. This morning at 7 a.m. it was 88* outside and 86* water (inside pool). Couldn't do any sprinting for fear I would combust. Swam 1/2 of my workout on "sleep mode" and took a cold shower. Am now basking in the a/c. Where do you swim Anitia? I swim at Joan Krok, it never breaks 80 there.

Where do you swim Anitia? I swim at Joan Krok, it never breaks 80 there. The temperature fluctuates a lot in San Diego, even just a few miles away. Kroc is in a cooler area, even though it's southeast of me--nice facility, too! I'm in Rancho Penasquitos/Mira Mesa area. I swim at the Penasquitos YMCA.

Middle of a heat wave here in San Diego. It has gotten up to 100* for the last 3 days at my house. This morning at 7 a.m. it was 88* outside and 86* water (inside pool). Couldn't do any sprinting for fear I would combust. Swam 1/2 of my workout on "sleep mode" and took a cold shower. Am now basking in the a/c.

Friday morning (yesterday) I got out of bed at 4:30 am (not a big fan of getting up that early, but will do anything to swim). Starting to get cold in the mornings in South Texas (40 degrees) - 'luvin it!! :groovy: Drove to the pool, and was in the water at 5 after 5:00, happily swimming my assigned 500 warm-up. It is an indoor pool and I was noticing flashing as I swam, like someone was taking pictures. Thought it was wierd, but I was happily swimming along thinking about my stroke and trying to stay under as long as possible after my turns. Then at the end of 350 yards, my team mates stopped me. We had to get out because the flashing I was seeing was the fire alarm. It seems that when they turned on the heater it set something off. There were only about 8 of us, but they made us get out of the building - wet and wait in the cold (I optomistically wrapped a towel around me). It took 20 minutes for the fire department to get there. By then, we had gone back into get our stuff and I drove to work where I showered and got ready to work. Did not bring workout clothes to make the most of my morning as Friday is a swim morning. It was the Stupidest thing to make us get out.... no fire... no smoke.... no smell. I understand the liability, but common sense people!!!!! There were only adults present. People were on deck in case something REAL happened.... Got up at 4:40 for only a 350 swim. Grrrrrrrrrr.:rant3: