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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.usms.org/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>What events do you do? **updated options**</title><link>https://community.usms.org/swimming/f/general/4671/what-events-do-you-do-updated-options</link><description>**the moderator changed the number of options, so now I can include IM**

Ok there has been alot of talk about alot of people doing this stroke, no body doing that stroke. Here is a poll that will show the true facts. In this poll you can select multiply</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: What events do you do? **updated options**</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/55212?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2006 01:52:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:dc5b4c38-83b8-4e07-b152-c1423827430c</guid><dc:creator>FindingMyInnerFish</dc:creator><description>Open water mile
In my few meets, I&amp;#39;ve done the following:
50 free (short and long course, the latter feeling like forever; short course in senior games, long course in an open meet)
100 free (senior games)
100 IM (also senior games... the time could be measured on a calendar... thought I&amp;#39;d try something different in a very low-key meet... would I do it again? under duress and if onlookers promised to look the other direction.... )

I actually enjoyed all of these events, even the crazy IM I sort of struggled through.

But I seem to like the open water better than any of the pool events--like the natural setting and the rocking of the waves, the feeling of freedom....

I learned to swim mostly in a bay as a kid, and I came to enjoy swimming even when others thought the water was too cold. Once, on a summer hike in NH, when the group came upon a very cold pond (fed from a mountain stream), I was the only adult female to swim in it--and LOVED it. (Of course, I can&amp;#39;t even IMAGINE swimming in the temps Lynne Cox has been exposed to--she&amp;#39;s totally one of my swimming heroes!)&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: What events do you do? **updated options**</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/55151?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2006 08:20:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:3ce7ec43-c2bb-4edc-9d3c-eba950f04ba7</guid><dc:creator>Former Member</dc:creator><description>I will take a bit of middle distance freestyle and backstroke. Now, for the real presents, I will take a Lionel train set(ok, a lot of these will be great)
 An endless pool would be nice as well..lol&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: What events do you do? **updated options**</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/55120?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2006 07:46:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:c53dd44c-a081-479d-ac01-e63067ffa2e8</guid><dc:creator>Former Member</dc:creator><description>Still no OW.  IMers think they rule.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>