He's especially good at expectorating!

[andygates]

Nobody else remembers that song from Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame, do they?  Just me?  Good, good.

I have discovered how to get a clear lane at a crowded pool at lunchtime: get a cold; recover apart from a pound of lungbutter; take a strong expectorant cough medicine; swim.  Every hundred metres or so, enough gack becomes sufficinetly loosened that you have to stop to hack and gark for a moment.  After a few repetitions of this performance, the medium lane is empty, the slow lane is crammed and the fast lane has near-Parisian traffic problems.  Heh.

Found a new sweet spot today, synchronising the hip roll with the recovery arm's lift from the water.  All very rolly.  I think its a sustainable, hit-your-rhythm thing, but since my secret identity is Captain Catarrh, I can't confirm that just yet.

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[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

I was quite interested when I got the new Swimshop catalogue and saw this. I'm contemplating it. Fist gloves first, though.

I'm sure this is just sheer sadism.

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[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

But not as sadistic as this!

Dear gods! What's wrong with these people?

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[andygates.livejournal.com]

They're making their crust flogging training gadgets to rich bored wannabe athletes? That's pretty sick. It's like a Powerbreathe in a survival situation!

Incidentally the wisdom from a couple of pretty serious swimmers here is don't bother with drag stuff, just swim in a T-shirt and some baggy board shorts. Just as draggy and another good use of old tees.

Fist gloves... yeah, might get those. I need more trunks and the rubber on my goggle-straps is starting to rot.

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[(Anonymous)]

I only swim for Work or recreation. But that's a sick little gadget. And I could instantly think of so many twisted uses. Thank you. It went well with my morning coffee.