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Subject: OT: Swimming


Slakker ( ) posted Sat, 05 February 2005 at 6:23 PM ยท edited Sat, 15 February 2025 at 10:10 AM

Most of you probably don't care, and i don't care that you don't care...i'm just really excited. Earlier today we had the Conference Championship meet, and while my team, unfortunately, failed to take the title for the fifth year in a row, i went All Conference (first place) in the 100 yard butterfly, with a best time of 57.41 Next saturday is sectionals, and then after that, State! (Which i fully expect to qualify for, for the first time ever in an individual event, as well as both of the relays i swim on.) WHOO! Sorry...i'm just, as you say, "chuffed."


TobinLam ( ) posted Sat, 05 February 2005 at 6:42 PM

Slakker seems like a pretty ironic name! Congratulations! I can run 2 miles straight and do 50 pushups or situps in a minute but I can't swim from one end of the pool to the other without getting tired.


Quest ( ) posted Sat, 05 February 2005 at 6:55 PM

Wow, thats just a wonderful achievement Slakker, congratulations and best wishes on the next meet. I scuba dived for over 12 years and at that time we had to swim a mile before even thinking about donning any gear before certification, so I was pretty much at home in the water.


Slakker ( ) posted Sat, 05 February 2005 at 7:03 PM ยท edited Sat, 05 February 2005 at 7:07 PM

Hehe...and to me, swimming a mile doesn't even seem like a big deal. When you're doing practices getting close to 8 or 9 thousand yards, a mile just doesn't seem that crazy...lol.

That's odd, Tobin, because...i can't run. I'm so slow, i get winded, and i have the bad knees...
But that's okay. Different muscle sets, anyways. Small correction to my last post, it's not that we FAILED for the fifth year in a row, we won it for the last 4 and couldn't get it today.

Message edited on: 02/05/2005 19:07


Ang25 ( ) posted Sat, 05 February 2005 at 7:52 PM

Hey Slakker, Congrats! Keep us posted on your progress. (I wouldn't mind some more speedo pics either ;-D)


Quest ( ) posted Sat, 05 February 2005 at 7:53 PM

Oh, I know what you mean, perhaps I should have said: In order to be considered for scuba diving, you needed to swim AT LEAST a mile. I would swim 3 miles in the pool. Many was the time I found myself swimming to shore for well over a mile especially when getting caught in rip currents. Today its an assembly line, cash operation with a 1-2 weeks course on the basics, a pat on the ass and sent off into the ocean with the hope that you dont lose a flipper and have an operational buoyancy compensator. Although there was a time when I was very fast and light on my feet, today I would probably suck down more dirt than I would water while diving. My hats off to you, great job!


Slakker ( ) posted Sat, 05 February 2005 at 8:01 PM

I'm not saying what you did wasn't cool, believe me...getting Scuba certified is something that i want to do one of these days. Maybe soon, Ang...and i've switched to the Jammer (the shorts-like-things.) I'm told the jammer is much more flattering than the speedo. I just have to get some pictures taken/developed/scanned. Which would be easier if my scanner was compatible with windows XP.


danamo ( ) posted Sat, 05 February 2005 at 10:17 PM

Congratulations Slakker! I almost set my school's record in
the breaststroke, but the girl slugged me.


Slakker ( ) posted Sun, 06 February 2005 at 12:07 AM

Yeah, i had that problem too... A guy i know got caught mid-race in the school stairwell by one of the janitors. To this day we call him "Stairmaster."


Quest ( ) posted Sun, 06 February 2005 at 1:29 AM

LOL...you animal...me too!


Incarnadine ( ) posted Sun, 06 February 2005 at 12:28 PM

Nice time! I used to swim competatively (breaststroke (seriously) and crawl) but now I just go for exercise. I do a mile to mile quarter three times a week depending on how much time i have. Excellent exercise and it does not screw up my knees/ankles.

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