It's a nice atmosphere.
It used be a little like that at the tournament held each summer at the Tennis Hall of Fame. Back in the 70's my dad used to get free tickets because he helped coach the state college's team and we'd go each year. You wouldn't necessarily see the biggest names (although you might), but a lot of the players would be hanging around, talking with people, signing stuff for kids (this was the seventies, after all, and tennis was fairly popular.) I remember me and my dad checking out a court tennis match and having a long conversation with one player who had (if I remember correctly) just been eliminated from the tournament. He talked about how he was thinking of ending his playing career and looking for new opportunities in the game. Turned out it was this guy, not long before his coaching career began.
But swimming? Boring.
Hardcore swim! Hardbodied water polo clusterfucks. Three minutes of hot thrusting action -- underwater! Underwater daisy chains. Mmmmm.
Sometimes I think you guys don't like the swimming posts.
Why, whatever would give you that idea?
Ogged, why don't you just join Masters? Then, you can mingle with former Olympians.
I'm going to have to swim a little more. I played water polo and was out swum by a guy from Kuwait. The shame. The shame.
Plus, I want to make the Unfogged A relay.
Hey I went swimming this morning using the advice in our friend Will's article. It certainly seems to make me move faster and get tired out more quickly, though I still don't have it quite mastered -- the notion of lifting my head out of the water to breathe on every single stroke just seems wacky, when I try it I start floundering around like a lunatic manatee.
Don't listen to Clown. That is just a drill. The best drills are head touch (or two touch or three touch) and single are, breath away drills.
Then, you can mingle with former Olympians.
What's the appeal in that? Those people are all crazy.
The shame. The shame.
Racist. You'd be fast too, if you'd grown up swimming in sand.
Oil.
You get a great feel for the water when you swim in oil.