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!!!
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All of these are making me do this :rofl: so I am getting in my ab work today. DANA: I have the opposite problem here about how long a certain distance takes. For instance, when people stop me and ask me how long it will take me to swim the 18 miles coming up, I always say around 9 hours. And they say: That Long? It takes our sailboats 5 hours to sail 18 miles.
And here is one more comment that is true, true, true. Many people start training for our triathlon here the week before!! I mean they see me out there training in high seas in January/February swimming my heart out and shake their heads.
They've told me it's not necessary two months ahead of time!!! A week is all an athlete needs to get ready. And I always say the same thing; THEN I WILL WATCH YOU FINISH.
I mean, two months for me isn't even hardly enough time to even consider a taper because the conditioning is just starting to set in!! In this instance, I have to say: CI=Complete Idiots.
All of these are making me do this :rofl: so I am getting in my ab work today. DANA: I have the opposite problem here about how long a certain distance takes. For instance, when people stop me and ask me how long it will take me to swim the 18 miles coming up, I always say around 9 hours. And they say: That Long? It takes our sailboats 5 hours to sail 18 miles.
And here is one more comment that is true, true, true. Many people start training for our triathlon here the week before!! I mean they see me out there training in high seas in January/February swimming my heart out and shake their heads.
They've told me it's not necessary two months ahead of time!!! A week is all an athlete needs to get ready. And I always say the same thing; THEN I WILL WATCH YOU FINISH.
I mean, two months for me isn't even hardly enough time to even consider a taper because the conditioning is just starting to set in!! In this instance, I have to say: CI=Complete Idiots.
