Comments on: Here I Am

By: speed Racer

speed Racer — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:50:19 +0000

I wish my legs were too long!

Good luck this weekend (although I’m sure it’s already over, so I hope it went well!). I think that the breaststroke should be illegal for just that reason. Next time, use your phenomenal open water skills to swim over her. Here’s how:

Swim up behind her until your head is about level with her butt: she will not kick you in the face because her hips have surely dropped.
On your next stroke, make sure your hand falls directly on her shoulders. Grab ahold, and dig your nails in just for effect.
Begin to push her towards the bottom of the pool with your front hand while your free hand comes around and lands on the other shoulder. Give her more nail.
Shove her deep down underwater and use her body as leverage to propel yourself forward. This is the same motion that you use when pulling yourself out of the water without the ladder.
Pee in the pool as you swim away so that she has to swim through it.

By: Culture Vulture

Culture Vulture — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:57:20 +0000

Your anticlockwise vortex of hell sounds familiar.
I hate swiming in lanes – you always have to go at someone else’s pace.
Free-for-all is better.
I hope you had a good Great North.

By: Celeste

Celeste — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:01:58 +0000

Hmmmmm, we have different ideas of “not blogging for a while”.

Glad to hear things still progress for you. I noticed the 100 push up thingy and rather fancied I’d give it a shot myself. So I jumped on the website but you need to be able to do at least ONE. Oh dear.

By: Adele

Adele — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:25:39 +0000

Best of luck with your swim, elbows out and off you go!

By: Karin

Karin — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:35:51 +0000

I hate breaststroking swimmers and trying to overtake them I have that same issue at my local pool every morning that I make it to the pool.

Good luck on the Great North Swim!