For all of you who know Leslie the Fortress Livingston, this should help you know her better.
For all of you who don't know Leslie the Fortress Livingston, prepare for the thrill ride get-to-know-Leslie event of the year.
A little background: Leslie is the 4th woman in history in the 45-49 year age group to beat 30 seconds in the 50 SCM butterfly.
She did this at age 47, and it is possible that she is actually the FIRST woman in history this old to break 30 at the age (assuming the previous 3 were 45 or 46.)
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This small film will help you understand all that goes into becoming an extraordinary human being/swimmer. Oh, and there's a little about Leslie in this, too.
Just joking. It's all about Leslie. With some guest appearances by Paul Wolf, Julie "Mulie" Oplinger, Jeff "the Barbarian" Roddin, and Jim Thornton as "the narrator."
Please enjoy before Leslie forces Jim Matysek to take this down.
Unlike my colleagues Leslie and Paul, whose respective infirmities are largely of the hysterical variety, my excuses are invariably 100 percent real. As Leslie's photo shows, a bout with Bell's Palsy back in the early 1990s has left its toll on me. What may look to the casual observer as a raffish sneer ("I laugh at exhaustion! Pain holds no terror for the likes of me!) is, in point of fact, a trace of residual facial paralysis from a once swollen 7th cranial nerve trapped in its bony tunnel from brain to face.
Imagine how good a swimmer I might have been were it not for the inability of my mouth corner to widen in perfect symmetry with its brother mouth corner, thus impeding oxygen flow to my body.
Even so, I laugh at exhaustion! Paul, Leslie: in this regard, I advise you both to look to the example of your infirm elder.
Unlike my colleagues Leslie and Paul, whose respective infirmities are largely of the hysterical variety, my excuses are invariably 100 percent real. As Leslie's photo shows, a bout with Bell's Palsy back in the early 1990s has left its toll on me. What may look to the casual observer as a raffish sneer ("I laugh at exhaustion! Pain holds no terror for the likes of me!) is, in point of fact, a trace of residual facial paralysis from a once swollen 7th cranial nerve trapped in its bony tunnel from brain to face.
Imagine how good a swimmer I might have been were it not for the inability of my mouth corner to widen in perfect symmetry with its brother mouth corner, thus impeding oxygen flow to my body.
Even so, I laugh at exhaustion! Paul, Leslie: in this regard, I advise you both to look to the example of your infirm elder.
