The "A" Team (Page 39)

billsorg - 2010-04-09 5:27 AM

What are everyone's plans for the weekend? 

wgraves7582 - 2010-04-09 6:49 AM Here is a scary statistic - I am half way to my 2009 swim yardage in April 2010?????  Wonder why I was never a good swimmer -

wgraves7582 - 2010-04-09 7:45 AM

Bill nods his 15+ years of marriage head in approval!

wgraves7582 - 2010-04-09 7:45 AM

Bill nods his 15+ years of marriage head in approval!

wgraves7582 - 2010-04-09 8:49 AM Here is a scary statistic - I am half way to my 2009 swim yardage in April 2010?????  Wonder why I was never a good swimmer -

wgraves7582 - 2010-04-09 10:02 AM

Wow - I love the water.  If the pool was more convenient I would swim 7 days a week.  I just love the feeling of being in the water and how it just surrounds you!!!

wgraves7582 - 2010-04-09 8:02 AM

Wow - I love the water.  If the pool was more convenient I would swim 7 days a week.  I just love the feeling of being in the water and how it just surrounds you!!!

mchally - 2010-04-09 10:13 AM
Water is wonderful!  I find it very relaxing to immerse myself.  The part I don't like is the chemicals in the pool and the organisms in the open water.

yogachic - 2010-04-09 8:15 AM

Yeah, I guess the other thing is that I used to swim 6 days a week when I was on the swim team in high school.  As much as I enjoyed it, I really didn't like smelling like chlorine all the time.  And my hair dried out and was harder to manage (since I have long hair!)

wgraves7582 - 2010-04-09 10:19 AM

That sounds fun - I only have Lake Erie and I am never swimming there

mchally - 2010-04-09 10:21 AM Yes, I wear chlorine like a perfume...no matter how much I wash between swims I can still smell it on my skin. 

As far as the hair goes...I make sure that I wet my hair well with fresh water, then I put a little conditioner on...then the swim cap.  I make sure to wash and condition my hair well afterward. Wetting your hair with non-chlorine water helps keep it from soaking up the chemicals as quickly.  The conditioner does this even more so.

Shoeless - 2010-04-09 10:22 AM Just checking in to tell you that I'm off to my race! The Grizzly Triathlon at the UofM in Missoula. It is the largest-attended pool-swim triathlon in North America. (Trivia I just found out this year.) They have 420 racers, swimming four people per lane (except Elite heats). Also, I had to sub at the schools the last two days. Fortunately it was rest week, so I only missed a mile run. And, organizing a triathlon would be great fun if someone didn't say, "You go ahead and do whatever you need to do, and we'll help you." Then when you do it, they say, "You should have talked to us about that first." Aaaaaaggggghhhh! Happy weekend!

wgraves7582 - 2010-04-09 8:30 AM

x2 here as well - enjoy and hopefully it will be stress free!

mchally - 2010-04-09 10:16 AM I almost made hydration a goal as well!

Shoeless - 2010-04-09 11:22 AM Just checking in to tell you that I'm off to my race! The Grizzly Triathlon at the UofM in Missoula. It is the largest-attended pool-swim triathlon in North America. (Trivia I just found out this year.) They have 420 racers, swimming four people per lane (except Elite heats). Also, I had to sub at the schools the last two days. Fortunately it was rest week, so I only missed a mile run. And, organizing a triathlon would be great fun if someone didn't say, "You go ahead and do whatever you need to do, and we'll help you." Then when you do it, they say, "You should have talked to us about that first." Aaaaaaggggghhhh! Happy weekend!

wgraves7582 - 2010-04-09 11:19 AM

That sounds fun - I only have Lake Erie and I am never swimming there

yogachic - 2010-04-08 4:00 PM

I wonder if there's a way to enforce "pool courtesy rules"?  Maybe a sign about sharing lanes for lap swimming?  (Maybe next to the sign about not running on the pool deck, not diving in shallow water, etc).  Because I'm sure regular members of the Y would also appreciate it, especially if there are no open lanes to move in to and you have to be stuck with someone hogging a lane like that.  It just doesn't seem right!

When I was on the swim team, if someone was slow and not letting people pass, it was common practice to grab their ankle and pull them, so they'd get water up their nose and have to stop - and then you could pass them.  Of course, we were all in junior high & high school, so that sort of meanness happened all the time   But it stopped people from not letting others pass them!  I would never do that to anyone now, but it's tempting!  (Actually I never did it back then either - probably because I knew my pace compared to everyone else and lined up accordingly, so I was never in front of someone faster than me.)


. . . I still think the old man probably drives that way too - driving slowly in the middle of the lane and not letting anyone pass him