Friday, January 25, 2008

You know you're a competitive swimmer when....

You know the art of assembling "Swedes"

If you're a guy you know that jammers are proof God loves us and wants us to be happy.

You know the differences between Fastskin, Fastskin II, and Fastskin Pro.

People have completmented you on your chlorine "highlights".

You envy Michael Phelps for his times ( not so much his bod, youth, money...)

You know just how big the difference is between a yard and a meter.

A "comfortable" pool temperature is anywhere between 75 and 80 degrees F. ( To my English/Aussie/ Canadian readers I didn't do the metric conversion...sorry.)

You've swam in open water below 78 degrees without a wetsuit.....

You've swam in Open Water below 70 degrees without a wetsuit...

2000 yards is your idea of an "easy" workout.

5 minutes seems like a really long time.....

You can probably think of at least 10 more things I left off this list....


R.D.

2 comments:

rocketpants said...

I don't own a wetsuit for swimming...and I've swum in plenty of frigid mt lakes in my day...but I am by no means a swimmer.

If it makes you feel more swim like...i don't know what most of your references are about. :-)

Speed Racer said...

Yippee! I qualified for like 3/4 of these! You left out "you have swum in below-55-degree water without a wetsuit" though. And I tried to buy Swedes when i got new goggles a month ago, but they didn't sell them at Sports Authority. The ones I got were so tight, though, that they leave awful marks that never go away just like Swedes... does that count?

PS You can check out your prize at my place.