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?)
How about meet warmups at events? I'm usually in warmups at the beginning (still to beat That Guy into the water. On a side note: It seems That Guy at the last meet possibly disobeyed the one hand on deck/slide in carefully rule to beat me into the water, upon announcement of pool open for warmup). I have noticed that I can usually get my entire warmup done before others even get in...although they have been in their suit watching everyone else warm up. Would this yardage also count for this game??? :banana:
Yes, meet warmups count, but because some swimmers take their warmups later if they're not in any early events, let's say that the person has to be just in their swimsuit, not clothed or semi-clothed (or naked for that matter. Did Jazz Hands ever do hot yoga, forcing Geek to fulfill his promise to swim a nekkid 200 fly? Do I even want to know the answer to this? Forget I said anything.) I agree that meet warmups could be a good way to post a big number in this game.
As for last weekend's meet, it is indeed possible that I disobeyed a directive. As soon as they said the warmup pool was open, I jumped in the water before jaadams1 and thus I missed anything else that might have been said. No regrets here! :bliss:
How about meet warmups at events? I'm usually in warmups at the beginning (still to beat That Guy into the water. On a side note: It seems That Guy at the last meet possibly disobeyed the one hand on deck/slide in carefully rule to beat me into the water, upon announcement of pool open for warmup). I have noticed that I can usually get my entire warmup done before others even get in...although they have been in their suit watching everyone else warm up. Would this yardage also count for this game??? :banana:
Yes, meet warmups count, but because some swimmers take their warmups later if they're not in any early events, let's say that the person has to be just in their swimsuit, not clothed or semi-clothed (or naked for that matter. Did Jazz Hands ever do hot yoga, forcing Geek to fulfill his promise to swim a nekkid 200 fly? Do I even want to know the answer to this? Forget I said anything.) I agree that meet warmups could be a good way to post a big number in this game.
As for last weekend's meet, it is indeed possible that I disobeyed a directive. As soon as they said the warmup pool was open, I jumped in the water before jaadams1 and thus I missed anything else that might have been said. No regrets here! :bliss:
