My friend just announced that her grandfather swam in the Olympics, when the swimming competion was done in the Hudson River. She is 40.
What does she mean by this? I don't think any Olympics were in NY, but could they have trained there? Or is she fibbing? :joker:
Just curious...SmartSwimmeroftheDay award to the person who knows!
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Haven't been to the city in a very long while. But yes they have many OW events there.
I'm not sure I'd want to venture into it. No matter how clean they say it is these days.
Here's a trivia question...where did the name for the "Red Tide" Masters Swim Team come from? :)
Ohhh, I know! I know! But it's a secret. Actually, Foster de Jesus, the coach who started the team around 1983, told me that it's a play on naming teams after predatory fish (sharks, barracuda) -- since red tides (the algae overgrowth) were in the news at the time, he thought it would be cool to name it after "predatory" algae. There are some other versions around, though. :dunno:
By the way, I don't do the Hudson swims either, but mostly because they're all longer than 100 meters. I'm told by people who have done them that the water's really OK. :)
Haven't been to the city in a very long while. But yes they have many OW events there.
I'm not sure I'd want to venture into it. No matter how clean they say it is these days.
Here's a trivia question...where did the name for the "Red Tide" Masters Swim Team come from? :)
Ohhh, I know! I know! But it's a secret. Actually, Foster de Jesus, the coach who started the team around 1983, told me that it's a play on naming teams after predatory fish (sharks, barracuda) -- since red tides (the algae overgrowth) were in the news at the time, he thought it would be cool to name it after "predatory" algae. There are some other versions around, though. :dunno:
By the way, I don't do the Hudson swims either, but mostly because they're all longer than 100 meters. I'm told by people who have done them that the water's really OK. :)
