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
Tecumseh:
:rofl::rofl: Sounds like your fellow hangs out with my fellow at the same bar here on the beach. Tall tales here on the island, and we have here what is supposed to be two ex-CIA agents in disguise: they are about 5'5, long beards, shirtless, weigh about 115 pounds and mooch from people. They live on the beach. Yeh, RIGHT.
Donna
Funny story
I woulda bet him.
Right here Right now, I bet you can't swim 6 miles in an hour.
Let's go
AJ
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
Upon reflection, I would say that no American swimmer had a great time at the 1980 Olympics.
Oops.
Miles
That's why athletes like Sue Walsh, Clay Britt, (and Jesse Vassallo, and Glenn Mills) impress me so. To have achieved US Olympian levels, and not to be able to compete in Moscow must have been devastating. .
I'm not sure I would have been able to stay so close to the sport after such an insipid, political travesty. Jimmy Carter may be an excellent ex-President, but I will forever vilify him for that cheap grandstanding gesture that cost him nothing politically but cost our 1980 Olympians mightily.
That's why athletes like Sue Walsh, Clay Britt, (and Jesse Vassallo, and Glenn Mills) impress me so. To have achieved US Olympian levels, and not to be able to compete in Moscow must have been devastating. .
I'm not sure I would have been able to stay so close to the sport after such an insipid, political travesty. Jimmy Carter may be an excellent ex-President, but I will forever vilify him for that cheap grandstanding gesture that cost him nothing politically but cost our 1980 Olympians mightily.
Couldn't agree more! I may even go to a Clay Britt clinic here some day. He's a good guy. And Glenn has a good discussion forum too.
Are you coming to the Albatross meet again this year, Jon? I'll be there and I'm sure I can take you in breaststroke. I'm almost as fast as Wally.
That's why athletes like Sue Walsh, Clay Britt, (and Jesse Vassallo, and Glenn Mills) impress me so. To have achieved US Olympian levels, and not to be able to compete in Moscow must have been devastating. .
I'm not sure I would have been able to stay so close to the sport after such an insipid, political travesty. Jimmy Carter may be an excellent ex-President, but I will forever vilify him for that cheap grandstanding gesture that cost him nothing politically but cost our 1980 Olympians mightily.
Jon I heartily agree. I hate nothing more than the Sports and Arts being the handmaiden of politicians. The whole boycottting made it (unfairly) look like nationalised sulking.
It's like when celebs get on stage to pick up an award and decide to lecture the viewers about politics: I don't care. I'm interested in your singing, dancing or acting etc....not how good you can crack on the government.
I admire their political efforts to change things but awards ceremonies are not the place for that sort of thing. Take the trophy, smile, wave, thank you parents and the Lord if you so wish, but then shut up and get off!
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
More tall tales:
Tonight I had the honor of sharing a lane with a guy who used to swim the Mile IM. Am I privileged or what?:rofl: :rofl:
The Mile-IM. WOW! I mean really, WOW! We sometimes swim an 800 IM in practice (usually when we are bad and coach needs to reassert authority), but a MILE. Holy cow, I'm so not worthy.:notworthy:
How about reverse ridiculous comments?
Has someone ever ridiculed or doubted what you said you could do and you then got to "cram it?"
When I used to do jujitsu a guy (who thought himself mr super-fit) heard me talking about push-ups.
He chimed in I bet you can't do 30.
I said I bet I can and will bet you 1 pound for each over 30 I do...for a max of $10.
I dropped laid on the floor pushed up, back down to touch nose and chin...at thirty I said there's your 30. At forty I said you owe me a tenner and at 50 I said I'm not looking to get my workshirts all sweaty.
The guy said "I'm actually impressed!"
I used to do easily a couple of hundred at jujitsu in the warm up drills.
The moral: Just cos I'm not skinny and ripped don't assume I am not atlhetic.
Who else has had "cram it" experiences.
