I propose a thread honoring old age in which each person lists their current physical ailments and general excuses that prevent them from beating people like Paul Smith and Rich Saeger.
I will lead with a growing list of my own.
1. Shoulder pain
2. Heart palpatations
3. High cholesterol
4. Left hip stress fracture
5. Lower back pain (from shoveling snow!)
6. Wife and 3 kids.
Perhaps we can give an award to the winner and the biggest whiner at the end of this thread.
John Smith
I'm so glad your shoulders are better! :groovy: Keep up those RCs! Good luck this weekend! I don't want surgery either!! Avoid if at all possible. But I hate to stop training or working out either. If I need a period of "relative rest," I usually cross train more. Or I do more restorative or drill based swimming.
I'm whiney today because I'm now on a "waking up early" tear. Early mornings do not agree with Draculinas.
Thanks Fort! I'm starting to get excited/nervous! This will be my last chance to swim short course. I'm hoping to improve on my last meet's times - especially my 200 free. I'm swimming less events this meet so hopefully, that will help! I'm actually doing (if I don't chicken out) 50 back!:rofl: ...not my best event at all. I'm soooo slow. I practiced a start this morning and it felt so wierd!...like I hit the water and STOPPED! :lolup: But heah...its only a 50! Hopefully I can SDK well off the turn to make up some for my start! :banana: I can check it off on my Tour de pool shirt! I'm concentrating on 50, 100 and 200 free and my 100 IM. ....butterflies just thinking about it!
I'm starting to think we truly are twins! I'm waking early too. I finally decided to just go to morning practice since I was awake! It felt good. I just hope I can start going to sleep earlier!:snore:
I'm so glad your shoulders are better! :groovy: Keep up those RCs! Good luck this weekend! I don't want surgery either!! Avoid if at all possible. But I hate to stop training or working out either. If I need a period of "relative rest," I usually cross train more. Or I do more restorative or drill based swimming.
I'm whiney today because I'm now on a "waking up early" tear. Early mornings do not agree with Draculinas.
Thanks Fort! I'm starting to get excited/nervous! This will be my last chance to swim short course. I'm hoping to improve on my last meet's times - especially my 200 free. I'm swimming less events this meet so hopefully, that will help! I'm actually doing (if I don't chicken out) 50 back!:rofl: ...not my best event at all. I'm soooo slow. I practiced a start this morning and it felt so wierd!...like I hit the water and STOPPED! :lolup: But heah...its only a 50! Hopefully I can SDK well off the turn to make up some for my start! :banana: I can check it off on my Tour de pool shirt! I'm concentrating on 50, 100 and 200 free and my 100 IM. ....butterflies just thinking about it!
I'm starting to think we truly are twins! I'm waking early too. I finally decided to just go to morning practice since I was awake! It felt good. I just hope I can start going to sleep earlier!:snore:
