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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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.
Jon I heartily agree. I hate nothing more than the Sports and Arts being the handmaiden of politicians. The whole boycottting made it (unfairly) look like nationalised sulking.
It's like when celebs get on stage to pick up an award and decide to lecture the viewers about politics: I don't care. I'm interested in your singing, dancing or acting etc....not how good you can crack on the government.
I admire their political efforts to change things but awards ceremonies are not the place for that sort of thing. Take the trophy, smile, wave, thank you parents and the Lord if you so wish, but then shut up and get off!
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.
Jon I heartily agree. I hate nothing more than the Sports and Arts being the handmaiden of politicians. The whole boycottting made it (unfairly) look like nationalised sulking.
It's like when celebs get on stage to pick up an award and decide to lecture the viewers about politics: I don't care. I'm interested in your singing, dancing or acting etc....not how good you can crack on the government.
I admire their political efforts to change things but awards ceremonies are not the place for that sort of thing. Take the trophy, smile, wave, thank you parents and the Lord if you so wish, but then shut up and get off!
