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
That's why athletes like Sue Walsh, Clay Britt, (and Jesse Vassallo, and Glenn Mills) impress me so. To have achieved US Olympian levels, and not to be able to compete in Moscow must have been devastating. .
I'm not sure I would have been able to stay so close to the sport after such an insipid, political travesty. Jimmy Carter may be an excellent ex-President, but I will forever vilify him for that cheap grandstanding gesture that cost him nothing politically but cost our 1980 Olympians mightily.
Couldn't agree more! I may even go to a Clay Britt clinic here some day. He's a good guy. And Glenn has a good discussion forum too.
Are you coming to the Albatross meet again this year, Jon? I'll be there and I'm sure I can take you in breaststroke. I'm almost as fast as Wally.
That's why athletes like Sue Walsh, Clay Britt, (and Jesse Vassallo, and Glenn Mills) impress me so. To have achieved US Olympian levels, and not to be able to compete in Moscow must have been devastating. .
I'm not sure I would have been able to stay so close to the sport after such an insipid, political travesty. Jimmy Carter may be an excellent ex-President, but I will forever vilify him for that cheap grandstanding gesture that cost him nothing politically but cost our 1980 Olympians mightily.
Couldn't agree more! I may even go to a Clay Britt clinic here some day. He's a good guy. And Glenn has a good discussion forum too.
Are you coming to the Albatross meet again this year, Jon? I'll be there and I'm sure I can take you in breaststroke. I'm almost as fast as Wally.
