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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I was swimming in the pool yesterday doing my workout. I stopped during my repeats and heard several yells from the beach for HELP, HELP, HELP. I jumped out of the pool and ran to the beach. Some one was in trouble in the rough surf. We got him to shore and he was OK.
Now this was ridiculus the waves were so rough, I would have never ventured out. The day before a little boy drowned in the hotel pool, no lifeguard on duty and the pool was filled with kids non swimmers on floaties. I wish I had been there I may have been of help or would have prevented it. I arrived just after he was breathing and he died on the way to the hospital.
Ridiculous things do happen at swimming pools.
I was swimming in the pool yesterday doing my workout. I stopped during my repeats and heard several yells from the beach for HELP, HELP, HELP. I jumped out of the pool and ran to the beach. Some one was in trouble in the rough surf. We got him to shore and he was OK.
Now this was ridiculus the waves were so rough, I would have never ventured out. The day before a little boy drowned in the hotel pool, no lifeguard on duty and the pool was filled with kids non swimmers on floaties. I wish I had been there I may have been of help or would have prevented it. I arrived just after he was breathing and he died on the way to the hospital.
Ridiculous things do happen at swimming pools.
