Count the yards until they get in

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?)
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  • I only scored 325 this morning. Calisthenics Man was in the locker room but I didn't see him in the pool area. Aahhhh...you beat me again!! 225 was my high score tonight. :banana: It's still a personal best, so nothing to worry about, always room for improvement. I played tonight at the YMCA pool with a guy that is a somewhat regular (about as often as I'm a regular at the YMCA). I saw him come out of the lockerroom, and proceeded to just swim freestyle until he got swimming, lucky for me he wasn't dilly-dallying that much. :) He hopped in the lane with me to swim, and after he and I both stopped at the wall together I let him know I scored 225 points. He was like "HUH???" I explained to him a little about this game. He was just amused, and said that on a normal day I probably would have scored more against him, he was just quicker into the pool tonight.
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  • I only scored 325 this morning. Calisthenics Man was in the locker room but I didn't see him in the pool area. Aahhhh...you beat me again!! 225 was my high score tonight. :banana: It's still a personal best, so nothing to worry about, always room for improvement. I played tonight at the YMCA pool with a guy that is a somewhat regular (about as often as I'm a regular at the YMCA). I saw him come out of the lockerroom, and proceeded to just swim freestyle until he got swimming, lucky for me he wasn't dilly-dallying that much. :) He hopped in the lane with me to swim, and after he and I both stopped at the wall together I let him know I scored 225 points. He was like "HUH???" I explained to him a little about this game. He was just amused, and said that on a normal day I probably would have scored more against him, he was just quicker into the pool tonight.
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