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?)
This morning I got a high score of 1200!! (and that's without using any score doubling methods). The one swimmer had Monday-morning-itus:cane:, and she just didn't want to get in the pool today!! :applaud: That's good for me. I could have scored even more if I would have jumped in and started swimming right away also, but I sat there for a couple of minutes too. :)
:ohyeah: :groovy::thewave:
This morning I got a high score of 1200!! (and that's without using any score doubling methods). The one swimmer had Monday-morning-itus:cane:, and she just didn't want to get in the pool today!! :applaud: That's good for me. I could have scored even more if I would have jumped in and started swimming right away also, but I sat there for a couple of minutes too. :)
:ohyeah: :groovy::thewave:
New high score to jaadams1! Please choose your prize:
a) fake beer :chug:
b) fake money :2cents:
c) fake Canadians :canada::canada:
Today's not over yet...always an evening lap swim at some overheated YMCA somewhere! :afraid:
You're sure to score a lot of points there, especially if there is an evening noodling class! :rolleyes:
Big fat zero here :(
In fact it was me that sat on the side for a minute or 2 coming to terms with the drop in the water temp.....maybe it was just warmer on deck?
950 points for me today. I'm even choosing a different person every time, rather than just being a repeat offender...
I think it helps that I swim at 5:00am...when most people are coming to the pool not exactly ready and willing. :applaud:
I got maybe 100 points today. Oh well, can't win em all.
I have kind of a different outlook. In our workouts, the coach is always there early and a lot of people get to the pool early and start the warm up. Since there is no "i" in team, I take the position that I get to count any yards that the people in my lane (teammates) have completed before I get in. I don't double count - but count the maximum yards completed by someone in my lane before I get in.
Today, I got to workout a little early so I was only +300 yards.
