Are you swimming for pleasure when you are traning?
I swim for relaxation.
I swim for fitness.
I swim to keep my blood pressure down.
I swim to lower my blood sugar.
Do I need to split my gut like so many of you are doing???
I think swimming is as close as humans ever get to the sensation of flying. I do occasionally split my gut and go eye-balls out, though. It can be fun if I'm in the mood for it.
I would say skating is much more like flying! Whee! Crash! Whee! Crash! :laugh2:
George, you have reached Valhalla, whence there is no return. You need not ever split gut, bust eyeballs less'n you choose. And you did epic swims of the wrenching variety, no? (like, 30 hours?)
From Paul's blog and others' comments, I gather it does take the breaking of body parts to make qualifying times for major meets. I would expect there to be more competitors now than 30 years ago; hence, shaving off the fractional seconds becomes meaningful, even necessary. On the other hand, "It doesn't have to be fun to be fun." The nut of it.
Regards, VB
I think swimming is as close as humans ever get to the sensation of flying. I do occasionally split my gut and go eye-balls out, though. It can be fun if I'm in the mood for it.
I would say skating is much more like flying! Whee! Crash! Whee! Crash! :laugh2:
George, you have reached Valhalla, whence there is no return. You need not ever split gut, bust eyeballs less'n you choose. And you did epic swims of the wrenching variety, no? (like, 30 hours?)
From Paul's blog and others' comments, I gather it does take the breaking of body parts to make qualifying times for major meets. I would expect there to be more competitors now than 30 years ago; hence, shaving off the fractional seconds becomes meaningful, even necessary. On the other hand, "It doesn't have to be fun to be fun." The nut of it.
Regards, VB
