Last Friday while doing sprinting and drills, a fellow yelled at me and asked me if I needed a doctor (I was huffing and puffing naturally), and I said No, just sprinting. He insisted on trying to have a conversation with me about his long distance swimming. I will point out I know this fellow and he is not athletic, he does the bar scene, very unfit.
He told me he swam 10 miles in an hour, and the instant he told me that I broke out in hilarious laughter. He was shocked. I told him it was humanly impossible without an attached motorized device and that our dive boats here don't even go 10 miles an hour.
So, he said we could meet and he would show me, I said how about tomorrow because Saturday is my distance day. He said, Oh, I can't because I got a tatoo and I have to stay out of the water for 2 months!!
Don't people realize we didn't just fall off the turnip truck? Anyone ever brag to you about some swim facts that could not be true? Maybe this is something a person can say to a non-swimming person, but I am in the water training 4 days a week; I am the last person to make such an outrageous statement to!!!
donna
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Yo, everyone, I am cracking up at all of your experiences and thoughts with this; I had no IDEA (say, where's our lightbulb icon for the word idea?) that I was not alone. I can just see that fellow taking 150 strokes to get down the pool and seeing nothing but whitewater. And, Fortress, AM can also stand for early in the morning; maybe it needs to be over on that terminology thread.
Rich: 275 yards a minute, how long would it take me to swim those 18 miles I am training for? Maybe there is a shortcut I don't know about, please share.
And a mile in 8 minutes, that means I could swim to Utila in about an hour plus some change; and how about the English Channel? 2 hours or so!! Man, maybe this fellow IS someone I want to know (NOT!)
Calling ESPN!!
Yo, everyone, I am cracking up at all of your experiences and thoughts with this; I had no IDEA (say, where's our lightbulb icon for the word idea?) that I was not alone. I can just see that fellow taking 150 strokes to get down the pool and seeing nothing but whitewater. And, Fortress, AM can also stand for early in the morning; maybe it needs to be over on that terminology thread.
Rich: 275 yards a minute, how long would it take me to swim those 18 miles I am training for? Maybe there is a shortcut I don't know about, please share.
And a mile in 8 minutes, that means I could swim to Utila in about an hour plus some change; and how about the English Channel? 2 hours or so!! Man, maybe this fellow IS someone I want to know (NOT!)
Calling ESPN!!
