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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Love these stories! (And SwimStud, really love the sandbagging avatar!)
Most people I know go to the opposite extreme. When I tell them I'm swimming the 1500 at a meet, they'll ask, "How long will that take you? A couple hours?" When I politely laugh and explain that we swim 3000+ meters in a 1-hour practice, they think I'M telling fish stories. There have been times I've had to pull up event results to prove that it really doesn't take an hour to swim a mile... even for a non-Olympian!:frustrated:
Dana
Love these stories! (And SwimStud, really love the sandbagging avatar!)
Most people I know go to the opposite extreme. When I tell them I'm swimming the 1500 at a meet, they'll ask, "How long will that take you? A couple hours?" When I politely laugh and explain that we swim 3000+ meters in a 1-hour practice, they think I'M telling fish stories. There have been times I've had to pull up event results to prove that it really doesn't take an hour to swim a mile... even for a non-Olympian!:frustrated:
Dana