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
Former Member
He told me he swam 10 miles in an hour, and the instant he told me that I broke out in hilarious laughter.
Hi Donna (et al)
Now, if it were me and IF I could have kept a straight face, I would have "looked" very impressed and would have suggested to him that since this was a very impressive feat, he should contact the local (or National or even International) media who would surely appreciate the opportunity of printing/publishing his accomplishment................
Does anyone think this guy could have made it into the Guiness Book of World Records (as the most outlandish boast)?
Cheers
a couple weeks ago at the pool, a guy came over to my lane while i was between sets. he complimented my swimming, told me he used to compete in high school (he is about 20 yrs old now). gave me some pointers to improve... then flailed off down the pool. took him about 150 strokes to get to the other end of the pool. lots of white water....
i was impressed.
be,
jim
He said, Oh, I can't because I got a tatoo and I have to stay out of the water for 2 months!!
This is good, too. I guess I really screwed up back in college when I was back in the water the next morning after getting a tattoo. Although I wasn't swimming 10 mph. Maybe that kind of speed makes the ink run! :)
And here is one more comment that is true, true, true. Many people start training for our triathlon here the week before!! I mean they see me out there training in high seas in January/February swimming my heart out and shake their heads.
Oh, I had to chuckle when I saw this quote, Donna! At the converted quarry across the street from our house, there are at least 2 triathlons held every summer. Starting one week before the race (and especially in the 2 or 3 days before the race), you can always spot the folks out to get their training in at the last second. The swim cap is on sideways and they jump in and start stroking at faster than my 50 free pace (the arm spin rate, not the speed, that is...) My husband and I will look at each other and say, "GOTTA TRAIN!!!"
And so that everyone knows, I mean no disrespect to the non-swimmer triathletes out there. I've worked with some of my good friends to get them 'through' the swim. It's just... show a little repect for the water, folks! Get in ahead of time and do some work. No way would I attempt the run without putting in some training months before!
I have met some of these people. It seems the more they :drink: the better they used to be! I reckon these people dream of being great champions/athletes, but just haven't got what it takes to live the life.
Carrie: I guess there are many people who just don't understand the 72 hour rule: no training 72 hours before the triathlon; I mean, it just makes no sense whatsoever except to alert them to the fact they are really, REALLY, out of shape.
A woman here has 3 small children all under 10, and this woman told me her 4 year old daughter could swim underwater with no breathing for 350 yards out to our buoy here. I said, Really? Can she show me? and the little kid got in and swam 2 seconds underwater and the mom said, "well, she's shy."
After I got her into one of my swim classes, we worked on holding our breath; she got up to 8 seconds. Now the mom just changes the subject everytime we work on holding our breath. And the little girl couldn't swim a stroke to start with.
Tales are taller on an island where one can't check the truth out except the old fashioned way.
10 Miles in an hour used to be easy to swim back when VO2 MAX Shampoo was used. Gee, we all remember the folks at Nationals a few years ago getting DQ'ed for using it because they were finishing their races before they started. Can you imagine that, banning shampoo as a performance enhancing drug?
ROTFLMAo ;)
All kidding aside, I did watch Pablo Morales swim an exhibition 50 SCY Free in some off the planet 11 to 12 seconds or so in Cupertino, CA at the SC Nationals in the late 1990's....using Mono fins....Trust me the whole 8 lane field was under most fast high school 25 yard times (splits) for their 50 times...It was mind blowing to watch. But then again, so was Graham Johnston’s 1650 time or Jim McConnica's 1650 time....in the regular meet.
10 Miles in an hour used to be easy to swim back when VO2 MAX Shampoo was used. Gee, we all remember the folks at Nationals a few years ago getting DQ'ed for using it because they were finishing their races before they started. Can you imagine that, banning shampoo as a performance enhancing drug?
ROTFLMAo ;)
:rofl::rofl: I've always wanted to finish a race before I start it; I do it everyday in the depths of my mind, but that's where it stays!!
Saw a patient the other day and I asked him how he lost his eye and he said the Japanese poked it out in WWII and that he was a Japanese POW. I was pretty interested I have lot of WWII vets. Then he went on and explained that they also drove spikes through both his shoulders....looked OK there to me. Then he explained that the Japanese government has a 2 million dollar bounty on his head....at this point I realized he was totally nuts and I tried to ease out of the subject and mentioned that Clint Eastwood has two new movies about Iwo Jima to this he mentioned...."Did you ever notice the guy down in the corner of the famous flag raising picture? That's me."
Maybe this guy also got a tatoo recently
