Sign me up!
I am the poster man-child for flabby and somewhat-lazy (though I prefer to medicalize the latter with claims of EDS barely held in check by modafinil.)
Johnny Storm, aka, the Human Torch in Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four, used to have a catch phrase: Flame On! which he would spiritedly cry out right before igniting.
Perhaps, armed with my new borrowed and arguably slightly oversized B70 at Colony Zones this year, you will hear a similar catch phrase being emitted from whatever block I have waddled my way up upon: Flab On!
I shall cry out this, in both pride and hope, before beginning a half-assed effort in the pool, en route, perchance, to a new PR in every lackadaisical swim I attempt!
PS to Leslie: It seens you have been taking a certain refuge in the notion that B70s hope most those who are big and fat, conferring relatively less advantage to, say, perfectly chiseled weight-lifting minxes who top out at 5' 4". This may be true, but I remain far from convinced. Theoretically, at least, once could argue precisely the opposite: that smaller, lighter swimmers have higher surface to volume ratios than us tub 'o lard bowling balls. Since the suit smooths the surface and (in the case of the B70, I am convinced, if not some of the others) adds float, then there is reason to believe you magnificent might-mites might indeed benefit more.
Regardless, now that I have joined the B70 Flabulous Bandwagon, in my mind if not yet in actual practice (still awaiting BillS's reply re: shipping info), I don't care how much it helps anybody else.
I just want it to help me, me, me!
On my way out of town with the kiddos for spring break (watch this space for Brats Gone Wild!), but I'll try and PM you info today if I can. I still have the original 3x5x7 box B70 used to UPS me the replacement suit. I think you can just go git yerself a prepaid shipping label at your local UPS store (or maybe just arrange for it to be here at my Hood River UPS store), and I can slap it on the box and send it your way on the 20th. Probably want to do second day if not prohibitively expensive to ensure it gets there on time. FedEx may work as well, but I'm not sure we have a shipping facility here. US Mail may well be bankrupt and/or out of biz by then at the rate the Fed is printing money.
I'm 6'2" and a reasonably flabby 195, so my size 30's flab containment/compression may not be what it should for relatively svelte you. But I'm still betting you will see significant time drops. Please try a breaststroke event; I'd like some empirical confirmation of my belief that the suit is most effective in that, The Most Elegant and Manly of All Strokes.
Sign me up!
I am the poster man-child for flabby and somewhat-lazy (though I prefer to medicalize the latter with claims of EDS barely held in check by modafinil.)
Johnny Storm, aka, the Human Torch in Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four, used to have a catch phrase: Flame On! which he would spiritedly cry out right before igniting.
Perhaps, armed with my new borrowed and arguably slightly oversized B70 at Colony Zones this year, you will hear a similar catch phrase being emitted from whatever block I have waddled my way up upon: Flab On!
I shall cry out this, in both pride and hope, before beginning a half-assed effort in the pool, en route, perchance, to a new PR in every lackadaisical swim I attempt!
PS to Leslie: It seens you have been taking a certain refuge in the notion that B70s hope most those who are big and fat, conferring relatively less advantage to, say, perfectly chiseled weight-lifting minxes who top out at 5' 4". This may be true, but I remain far from convinced. Theoretically, at least, once could argue precisely the opposite: that smaller, lighter swimmers have higher surface to volume ratios than us tub 'o lard bowling balls. Since the suit smooths the surface and (in the case of the B70, I am convinced, if not some of the others) adds float, then there is reason to believe you magnificent might-mites might indeed benefit more.
Regardless, now that I have joined the B70 Flabulous Bandwagon, in my mind if not yet in actual practice (still awaiting BillS's reply re: shipping info), I don't care how much it helps anybody else.
I just want it to help me, me, me!
On my way out of town with the kiddos for spring break (watch this space for Brats Gone Wild!), but I'll try and PM you info today if I can. I still have the original 3x5x7 box B70 used to UPS me the replacement suit. I think you can just go git yerself a prepaid shipping label at your local UPS store (or maybe just arrange for it to be here at my Hood River UPS store), and I can slap it on the box and send it your way on the 20th. Probably want to do second day if not prohibitively expensive to ensure it gets there on time. FedEx may work as well, but I'm not sure we have a shipping facility here. US Mail may well be bankrupt and/or out of biz by then at the rate the Fed is printing money.
I'm 6'2" and a reasonably flabby 195, so my size 30's flab containment/compression may not be what it should for relatively svelte you. But I'm still betting you will see significant time drops. Please try a breaststroke event; I'd like some empirical confirmation of my belief that the suit is most effective in that, The Most Elegant and Manly of All Strokes.
