Have any of you ever been at a meet and seen someone who, say, you've seen in a professional mode, say, for example, crying into kleenex in their office over your life trials, and suddenly you see this same person at a swim meet in a Speedo? And they are in your heat or close to your heat? So there's no way of being subtly invisible, which is your deepest heart's desire? Is there any way I can ban these people (two, now!) from *my* meets and *my* happy place? My only other thought is I must definitely leave them in the dust, race-wise.
I kept seeing the Geek at swim meets in his Speedo. I would post the picture again but Jim won't allow it.
I'm not afraid of Jim. Here's a little walk down memory lane for you gull.
I had the reverse happen to me ... probably 7 years ago I showed up to one of my first master's meets after taking 12 years off from competing and I was very far from back into shape. I was walking back to my towel after a swim ... this was before I had discovered jammers, so was in an old school lycra speedo ... and ran into two people who worked for me (not direct reports, but they reported to a manager who reported to me). They were fully clothed and there to watch a friend (who didn't work with us). Not a good scene at all.
I think I've successfully avoided speedo exposure to any co-workers or clients since then.
I'm not afraid of Jim. Here's a little walk down memory lane for you gull.
That's not the same guy!
I've never met anyone out of context at a meet. I must not get out enough.
I have never met anyone at a swim event that I had gone to for embarrassing or sensitive professional services (doctor, therapist, etc.). I really would not like that! But besides relying on the other person to be coolly professional I don't know what I could do about it.
My swimming life overlaps the rest of my life quite a bit, though, even though I don't live or work in a small town. Right before my heat of the 1000 at Nationals in Austin, one of my teammates (let's call him Jim) introduced me to someone Jim knew (let's call him Peter) who had asked Jim to introduce us. Why? Because Peter was about to start working for one of my clients, and when Peter told his soon-to-be-new co-workers that he could not start work until the second week in May due to Nationals they said, "oh, is that the same meet that is going to?" Now that I know Peter I see him regularly at events and we chat about work some.
I once swam the Trans-Tahoe Relay with a team of people I knew only through our shared field. Some of them I knew before I joined their profession; others I met through work and then learned that they also swam. One of my current teammates works in my field, and when I saw him for the first time in a business suit with dry hair I spent quite a while trying to figure out why he looked so familiar.
It's a little like golfing, only with weirder clothes and less equipment.
I once swam the Trans-Tahoe Relay with a team of people I knew only through our shared field.
You are officially on my approved list. I want to do this swim before I die. Fort has also committed to doing it with me, just need two more.
You are officially on my approved list. I want to do this swim before I die. Fort has also committed to doing it with me, just need two more.
Count me in. I have always wanted to do that swim. :cheerleader:
Sorry for the thread hijack, Isobel. I don't think that's ever happened to me, but it would certainly be weird.
You are officially on my approved list. I want to do this swim before I die. Fort has also committed to doing it with me, just need two more.
You need 6 and that lake is f****in' cold!!! You'll freeze your *** off.
But if you need someone to fill a team, I can be bribed.
Fort has also committed to doing it with me, just need two more.
Sorry, booked. My first OW is going to be one of Randy Nutt's sunshiney Caribbean swims, fin division. I'd have to strap on 3-4 B70 wet suits to muddle through cold bleak dreary lake water.
Apparently this doesn't happen to too many people. Hmm. Worse for me, the first time, I didn't know that I knew this person from this particular context, and flirted with him outrageously, and he let me flirt, so he was very professional, but later I found out he knew exactly who I was. Sigh. I was told by my "regular" that I have very good taste.
Obviously I go *out* a little too much! But at upcoming meet I really don't want to see this dude in a Speedo and I'm quite sure I will.
Count me in on whatever swim you are talking about, by the way.
