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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10 Miles in an hour used to be easy to swim back when VO2 MAX Shampoo was used. Gee, we all remember the folks at Nationals a few years ago getting DQ'ed for using it because they were finishing their races before they started. Can you imagine that, banning shampoo as a performance enhancing drug?
ROTFLMAo ;)
All kidding aside, I did watch Pablo Morales swim an exhibition 50 SCY Free in some off the planet 11 to 12 seconds or so in Cupertino, CA at the SC Nationals in the late 1990's....using Mono fins....Trust me the whole 8 lane field was under most fast high school 25 yard times (splits) for their 50 times...It was mind blowing to watch. But then again, so was Graham Johnston’s 1650 time or Jim McConnica's 1650 time....in the regular meet.
10 Miles in an hour used to be easy to swim back when VO2 MAX Shampoo was used. Gee, we all remember the folks at Nationals a few years ago getting DQ'ed for using it because they were finishing their races before they started. Can you imagine that, banning shampoo as a performance enhancing drug?
ROTFLMAo ;)
All kidding aside, I did watch Pablo Morales swim an exhibition 50 SCY Free in some off the planet 11 to 12 seconds or so in Cupertino, CA at the SC Nationals in the late 1990's....using Mono fins....Trust me the whole 8 lane field was under most fast high school 25 yard times (splits) for their 50 times...It was mind blowing to watch. But then again, so was Graham Johnston’s 1650 time or Jim McConnica's 1650 time....in the regular meet.
