Top Tip: #387

Respect. Furthest I've ever swum is two miles, in a swimming pool, and it
took me three hours to do it.

 

Disounting Bobby (the only girl in the team) who was
a young mans wet dream[1] when it came to the breast
department, not very.

[1]Watching her get greased up, on the boat was just
fantastic. Though it has to be said Lanolin doesn't
actually smell all that nice. Scraping it off with a knife afterwards

 

<makes note to hold on to platy if the French run ferry goes down>

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is also less than pleasant.

Bloody, <CTRL><enter>, I fuckin' hate it when that
happens.

 

You only *ever* do that once...

 

Aged 14 I did 4k in an hour, for a charity swim once in a pool.
Longest distance, I can't remember, probably 7k or 8kish, outdoors,
untimed (again, when training for the channel swim).
Used to be sub minute (57s) for the 100 too as a 15 year old,
just before I stopped.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ

<AOL>

I had a ridiculous conversation with Mrs WUN a while back where she was
*insisting* (as good swimmers do) that everyone is naturally buoyant.

I am not.

Eventually she supported me floating on my back in deep-ish water. Then
she let go. "See!" she said. Then "Oh", as I slowly sank beneath the
water, ending up vertical with about half an inch of the top of my head
above the water line.

 

So what you're trying to say is that you're solid muscle with not an
ounce of fat on you. Mrs WUN (whom I'd love to meet some time) doesn't
know how lucky she is!

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Colin Irvine

*Snort*.

Rocks in my head, more likely.

 

heh.

I learnt that people are positively (most), neutrally (a few) or
negatively (less) bouyant when I did my dive training, years ago.

Back then , I was neutrally bouyant - which meant I floated, but
usually a few inches below the surface.

 

You floated upside down?

 

Your point was quite clear to me at the time.

All I needed to do was carry a straw.

 

I'm exactly the same. I know how to float, I usd to be able to do it as
a kid, but these days the only way I can float is by inhaling deeply and
holding my breath. Otherwise I sink like a stone.

 

Stop people standing on your head then. That helps.

God, I'm funny tonight.

 

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Were you less well endowed when you got to france ?

 

Swam to Spinalonga from Agios Nikolaos once

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinalonga

no idea how far it was, a couple of miles?

Where;s Greek George when you need him ?

 

I've had that conversation with Linda (who is a very good swimmer).

She was wrong, too.

Sounds familiar.

 

Seven miles if you get out and walk over the causeway at Elounda
or longer if you go round the headland.
Are you sure that you started from Ag Nik?

 

I'm not either. As I conclusively proved aged about 7..

Phil

 

Not sure at all - I just remember swimming across and then getting told
off by some Greek when I got out of the water back on the mainland, as
there were dangerous currents out there, apparently