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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Come down to Town North Y - the water had to be close to 88 today - you will never worry about a drop in the water temp again. Main set today was 18 100's - not a good day for hot water.
'tis a bit far for me :) And I do prefer it cooler to hotter :)
The pool temp still seems on the cool side, but great once you get going - there's always that little brr moment when you first get in, but the brr lasted longer today - all the way to the other end of the pool in fact.
Back to the game though, today's score is 300 from when I first noticed green hat guy, by which time he was at the other end of the pool with his hat on doing some stretches, so I missed the opportunity to count as he walked the length of the pool and put his hat on.
I was doing the tail end of 50s fly followed by an IM drill set, so it wasn't 300 continuous swim.
And I got an extra 50 in in the time between him entering the pool and starting his workout. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Come down to Town North Y - the water had to be close to 88 today - you will never worry about a drop in the water temp again. Main set today was 18 100's - not a good day for hot water.
'tis a bit far for me :) And I do prefer it cooler to hotter :)
The pool temp still seems on the cool side, but great once you get going - there's always that little brr moment when you first get in, but the brr lasted longer today - all the way to the other end of the pool in fact.
Back to the game though, today's score is 300 from when I first noticed green hat guy, by which time he was at the other end of the pool with his hat on doing some stretches, so I missed the opportunity to count as he walked the length of the pool and put his hat on.
I was doing the tail end of 50s fly followed by an IM drill set, so it wasn't 300 continuous swim.
And I got an extra 50 in in the time between him entering the pool and starting his workout. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr
