...Once he climbed out of the pool, the kung fu antics began once again. Perhaps he was training for a biathlon of sorts. Swimming and beating people up.
I can't believe there hasn't been a "Chuck Norris" comment yet...
Anna Lea
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I can't believe there hasn't been a "Chuck Norris" comment yet...
Anna Lea
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There is no doubt in my mind that had Chuck witnessed the aformentioned behavior, the water in the pool would have turned red. :eek:
Read this feature on Rec Swimmers from Mel Stewart. Then check out The Screaming Viking's reply on page 2. It's hilarious.
www.alpha.swimnetwork.com/.../rec_swimmers__love__em_or_hate__em_-8803.html
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:rofl:
:lmao:
And after I stopped crying/laughing, I could finally read the article to my husband, as he wanted to know what was so funny. I only got a smile back. I guess there is something to be said about "swimming" humor! :laugh2:
Impossible! He swims at my pool with his 2 equally obnoxious buddies!
Sounds like he's ubiquitous.
If you're swimming a long set this guy also likes to push off after his two minute rest period and "race you" for a 25. It's just so much fun to completely dust him without even breaking stroke! :)
Sounds like he's ubiquitous.
If you're swimming a long set this guy also likes to push off after his two minute rest period and "race you" for a 25. It's just so much fun to completely dust him without even breaking stroke! :)
At my pool:
- Backwards breaststroke woman. How can I put this... her kicks use more leg flexibility than is actually necessary? Maybe that's not clear. She, um, basically does the splits to start every breaststroke kick. Doing so moves her backwards in the water. Then she completes the kick and moves forward again. Her arm pulls tip the scales in favor of forward progress, so she eventually does get from one end of the pool to the other. It's painful to watch, so I try not to look at her.
- A twist on the person who randomly races you: two guys at my gym usually swim a few laps after weightlifting. They swim with their heads out of the water. They're nice guys; sometimes they ask me questions about swimming. One day they happened to be in the lanes on either side of me. I was in the middle of a 300 free when I noticed very high concentrations of bubbles to my left and right. It dawned on me that they were racing each other. Without changing my 300 pace I swam right through their race, did a flip turn, and pushed off before they finished their all-out 25. I guess I kinda ruined that for them, but in my defense I didn't know what was going on until I was in the middle of it...
My favorite rec-swimmer story was when I was 8 months pregnant with my middle son. I'd go to the local college pool and be maybe 1000 yards into my workout and this one guy would always get into the lane next to me. At first I assumed this was coincidental as was the fact that he'd always push off the wall just when I would. Pretty soon it became evident, though, that his warm-up was a race to see if he could beat me. I would, of course, always maintain a long and relaxed looking stroke while making damn well sure I beat him back to the wall.
I kept wondering, "What is this guy thinking?" Is he going to go to the office today and brag that he beat some 33 year old pregnant woman in a 50 at the pool?" :shakeshead:
Recently one of the floaters in the "slow" lane began intentionally splashing my swim partner and I in the face when we went to breathe as we swam past him in the adjoining lane. When we confronted him on it he said "you guys splash to much to when you swim. you need to swim like me, nice and slow, see, no splash".
Needless to say he stopped.
