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
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!
Dearest sleep deprived twin Draculina:
That sounds like a good plan. You don't need to be doing all that breaststroke anyway!. :joker: I'm sure you'll do great, although you were pretty smoking fast last time IMHO!!! What about that one second on the 200 IM you needed?!
I usually love the 100 IM. But, just to stay on topic, I really hated it my last meet. Dove in and got a calf cramp right away. That made it unfun. But there's always next time. Go get 'em! (And remember you can still swim fast when sleep deprived!)
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!
Dearest sleep deprived twin Draculina:
That sounds like a good plan. You don't need to be doing all that breaststroke anyway!. :joker: I'm sure you'll do great, although you were pretty smoking fast last time IMHO!!! What about that one second on the 200 IM you needed?!
I usually love the 100 IM. But, just to stay on topic, I really hated it my last meet. Dove in and got a calf cramp right away. That made it unfun. But there's always next time. Go get 'em! (And remember you can still swim fast when sleep deprived!)
