I thought I'd start a new thread and see what gives.
This is about funny moments when swimming practice or in a race. I have one that comes to mind.
I was swimming a 400 IM (years ago), and was starting the breaststroke leg of it. Right after I made my first turn and surfaced, there was a gal swimming breastrstroke in my lane coming right for me. I thought I had somehow changed lanes on the turn, so I went under the lane lines and got in the empty lane.
She had made the mistake, not me, but I ended up getting her time and she got mine. But it made no difference; they DQd both of us.
Moral of story: swim in your own lane at all times.
Donna
Former Member
The referee that DQed us was a parent of one of the girls on our team. I couldn't believe that we were DQed.
Every year the seniors were responsible for providing everyone gag gifts at the banquet. At the banquet that year I received a speedo with an assortment of fruits glued to it for my gag gift.
I seem to be forever destined to the "slow lane." A lot of the new swimmers start out in my lane, then graduate as they get faster.
Some years ago there was a new guy who had been coming to swim practice fairly regularly. One day after work I stopped at the grocery store near the pool where we swam. I was in the produce section when I saw a guy who looked somewhat familiar. He was looking at me, too, as if to try to place me.
Finally I realized it was the new guy from the pool. I said, "Oh, hi. I didn't recognize you with your clothes on."
There was a woman standing nearby, close enough to hear what I said. She gave us a strange look.
The guy never came to the pool again.
Anna Lea
Racing for the school and thinking I had won the breaststroke because I was way ahead...I jupmed up with raised fists..only to be told the other kid just reached out and touched before me...I should not have eased up in my last stretch...haha I was only 11.
Leo,
I didn't know this rule. But this happened in about 1962. And if that rule was in place, I still messed up big time because I didn't finish in my own lane:shakeshead:
That's good to know for anyone this may happen to!!!
Donna
A young boy I coached was kind of new to swimming and....bless his heart, he was not very bright. The group was huge that night and maybe we assumed he knew more than we should have. The team was doing a set with fins. We looked up and he was trying to swim with the fins on his hands. It was hard to keep a straight face when we had to tell him the correct way to use fins. :D
I was at a British Universities national competition when a men's medley relay team from Scotland swam the entire race naked.
The backstroke leg was particularly popular.
