An impressive go slow

[sawyl]

I had a good session at the pool this afternoon. Despite feeling seriously tired for the first couple of laps, I felt much better once I'd warmed up and managed to set a decent pace. But as I was starting to wind down, I found myself caught behind someone swimming along a snail's pace. Forced to stop to prevent myself from colliding with the guy, I found myself talking to one of the other, speedier, regulars about it:

Regular:	Some people really are hopeless at looking behind them, aren't they? You'd think he'd notice that he's going along at about a third of the speed of everyone else.
Me:	He is rather slow, isn't he? I don't think I could maintain that pace witout sinking!
Regular:	It's actually really difficult to swim freestyle that slowly. It's hard to get the breathing right if you don't generate a bow wave.
Me:	You mean he's doing all that and not breathing!?! He must have put in some serious time to get that perfected!
Regular:	Years, probably...

At which point we both started laughing...

Miles to Lothlórien: 442

Comments

[doctor-squale.livejournal.com]

You talked like two high school bullies. You should be ashamed.

[sawyl.livejournal.com]

Except that we didn't actually, y'know, do any bullying. Instead, we simply discussed what was, all things considered, an extremely impressive piece of swimming — like I said, I couldn't have done it — whilst waiting for a gap to open up after the guy precisely so that we wouldn't end up swimming intimidatingly close behind him, making him feel as though he was being crowded.

[doctor-squale.livejournal.com]

That's exactly what bullies do. They laugh at slow people at
the swimming pool.

Hopefully, I haven't been to the swimming pool for decades.
( I guess that the 4 feet deep pool at the camping in spain last summer does not count. )

[doctor-squale.livejournal.com]

(I meant fortunately not hopefully.)