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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George, he's very lucky that you heard him yell.
I used to sail on Lake Michigan out of a Chicago harbor. At that time, the Chicago shoreline didn't have a concrete seawall where we were, just enormous boulders. Slippery boulders. Every summer, a few children would drown with boats filled with lifesaving equipment only 30 yards away. Because the wind usually blew out onto the lake out of our field of vision, we never heard the cries. It makes me sick every time I think about it.
George, he's very lucky that you heard him yell.
I used to sail on Lake Michigan out of a Chicago harbor. At that time, the Chicago shoreline didn't have a concrete seawall where we were, just enormous boulders. Slippery boulders. Every summer, a few children would drown with boats filled with lifesaving equipment only 30 yards away. Because the wind usually blew out onto the lake out of our field of vision, we never heard the cries. It makes me sick every time I think about it.
