New game! Here's how to play: get in the water and swim. When you see a person emerge from one of the locker rooms, make a mental bookmark of where you are in your workout/set/swim and keep going. Once the other person starts swimming, make another mental bookmark and then subtract the difference. The number of yards or meters you swam before the other person finally started is your score!
This morning I was at the 175 mark of my standard 800 IM stroke drill warmup when I noticed another guy on the pool deck. He started swimming right after I finished my 800, yielding a score of 625. Can you beat my high score??? You can play this game as many times as you want during your workout, as long as there are slackers milling around.
To win this game you need to swim as much as possible and not waste time. If you see more than one person on the pool deck, you need to pick the right slacker. They should do several of the following:
Carefully arrange their toy pile at the end of their lane
Talk to anyone and everyone
Put on their cap, goggles, MP3 player, heart rate monitor, nose clip, earplugs, facemask, snorkel, fins, pull buoy...
Drag over a chair for their mini-whiteboard that has the workout written out on it
Oh wait no it doesn't, so they write it out there on the pooldeck
Sit with their feet in the water, just staring at the pool (this is my secret weapon! the guy this morning increased my score by around 400 just from doing this!)
Slowly lower themselves into the water inch by inch
Complain that the water is cold/warm/wet
Brawl with the noodlers (ok I've never actually seen this happen, but it would be pretty awesome wouldn't it?)
If you see more than one person on the pool deck, you need to pick the right slacker. They should do several of the following:
Carefully arrange their toy pile at the end of their lane
Talk to anyone and everyone
Put on their cap, goggles, MP3 player, heart rate monitor, nose clip, earplugs, facemask, snorkel, fins, pull buoy... :afraid:
Drag over a chair for their mini-whiteboard that has the workout written out on it
Oh wait no it doesn't, so they write it out there on the pooldeck
Sit with their feet in the water, just staring at the pool (this is my secret weapon! the guy this morning increased my score by around 400 just from doing this!)
Slowly lower themselves into the water inch by inch
Complain that the water is cold/warm/wet :lmao:
Brawl with the noodlers (ok I've never actually seen this happen, but it would be pretty awesome wouldn't it?) :ohyeah:
My score would be huge if I kept track of the noodlers, starting from the point of, "Slowly lower themselves into the water inch by inch". And, of course, they always complain about the water being too cold, at 85 degrees! :shakeshead:
I guess your game is one way to make your swims more interesting- and entertaining! :applaud:
Carefully arrange their toy pile at the end of their lane
Talk to anyone and everyone
Put on their cap, goggles, snorkel, fins, pull buoy...
Sit with their feet in the water, just staring at the pool (this is my secret weapon! the guy this morning increased my score by around 400 just from doing this!)
Slowly lower themselves into the water inch by inch
Complain that the water is cold/warm/wet
Now you're talkin about me! :D
Now you're talkin about me! :D
Poolraat, let's work together on this to push the high score into the 4-digit range! :cheerleader: I'll swim and you do whatever it is that you do.
Poolraat, let's work together on this to push the high score into the 4-digit range! :cheerleader: I'll swim and you do whatever it is that you do.
What's funny about this is I can score just about the same on the other (slackers) here. :bolt:
I swim with a team, do they count? We all get in together as in "dive on the 5:00 on the clock" together. Now if you are talking non-team mates, I'd be well over 2000 when I see the next person on deck since our team is in 45 min before the pool opens to the public.
I swim with a team, do they count? We all get in together as in "dive on the 5:00 on the clock" together. Now if you are talking non-team mates, I'd be well over 2000 when I see the next person on deck since our team is in 45 min before the pool opens to the public.
Hmm. I guess a person who is waiting for pool availability doesn't count. Teammates who stroll in late and take their time getting in the water... they are the ones to watch.
Hmm. I guess a person who is waiting for pool availability doesn't count. Teammates who stroll in late and take their time getting in the water... they are the ones to watch.
Strolling in late doesn't happen with us. We are expected to be on deck 10 min before practice starts (so 4:35am) and start stretching once we walk in. The coach will set a time when everyone has to be at the end of the pool, caps and goggles on and ready to dive in. We all dive together. Someone comes in late and the afternoon practice does push ups. This is an age group team.
