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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The other side of the coin. When getting back home after running the MCM (marathon), done in 5 hours and change, my mother who lived with me,( or was it the other way around?), asked me: "Did you win the marathon?" The other question asked by most people, was how far was the marathon that I had run.
Fellow swimmers, who have always swum exclusively in a pool, ask me how I would swim in a "dark" lake. Well, it so happens that when I was a kid, I use to ski all over this lake, where I now swim a 1,000 meters competition. I grew up swimming in lakes and creeks and rivers and oceans and so forth. I think the first swimming pool here in town was built when I was about 15 years old. billy fanstone
The other side of the coin. When getting back home after running the MCM (marathon), done in 5 hours and change, my mother who lived with me,( or was it the other way around?), asked me: "Did you win the marathon?" The other question asked by most people, was how far was the marathon that I had run.
Fellow swimmers, who have always swum exclusively in a pool, ask me how I would swim in a "dark" lake. Well, it so happens that when I was a kid, I use to ski all over this lake, where I now swim a 1,000 meters competition. I grew up swimming in lakes and creeks and rivers and oceans and so forth. I think the first swimming pool here in town was built when I was about 15 years old. billy fanstone
