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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Here's a couple, not nearly as funny as those though...
I was coaching a high school team and we had one kid who would swear just about every other word he said. I continually kicked him out of practice. Well, his father didn't like that, but since he couldn't defend his son breaking my rules, he just started telling people he's a better coach than me (he'd never coached) and could swim faster than me. So, I told his son after being informed of such, that I would bring my suit to practice every day for the rest of the season and any day his father wanted to race, he could pick the event and we'd go. I heard about three weeks later from one of this kids' friends that his dad got in the community pool to "train" and after taking 5 minutes to do a 50, told his son to tell me he'd been in a bad car accident and couldn't race me that season.
Another time a teenage girl apparently told her mother she had beaten my wife, Megan, in the 100 breaststroke. The mother then sent a really snotty e-mail to Megan's website, bragging about it, and asking where she could get the results "for her records." Not wanting to spoil the girls fun, Megan just responded and said, "I'm glad she enjoyed the race. Not sure where the results can be found."
A week later the woman e-mailed again and apologized profusely, and let us know her daughter had been grounded. The mom had found the results and I guess was a little upset when she realized her daughter was 7th... and the one girl behind her wasn't Megan. ;)
Here's a couple, not nearly as funny as those though...
I was coaching a high school team and we had one kid who would swear just about every other word he said. I continually kicked him out of practice. Well, his father didn't like that, but since he couldn't defend his son breaking my rules, he just started telling people he's a better coach than me (he'd never coached) and could swim faster than me. So, I told his son after being informed of such, that I would bring my suit to practice every day for the rest of the season and any day his father wanted to race, he could pick the event and we'd go. I heard about three weeks later from one of this kids' friends that his dad got in the community pool to "train" and after taking 5 minutes to do a 50, told his son to tell me he'd been in a bad car accident and couldn't race me that season.
Another time a teenage girl apparently told her mother she had beaten my wife, Megan, in the 100 breaststroke. The mother then sent a really snotty e-mail to Megan's website, bragging about it, and asking where she could get the results "for her records." Not wanting to spoil the girls fun, Megan just responded and said, "I'm glad she enjoyed the race. Not sure where the results can be found."
A week later the woman e-mailed again and apologized profusely, and let us know her daughter had been grounded. The mom had found the results and I guess was a little upset when she realized her daughter was 7th... and the one girl behind her wasn't Megan. ;)
