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Oh! I didn’t recognize you with your clothes on!
Swimmers spend somewhere between 20-30 hours a week nearly naked. We get so used to seeing each other with wet hair, wet skin, and bare midriffs that we don’t always recognize each other when fully clothed.
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Are you going to finish that?
Swimmers are notorious eaters. Which makes it a lot of fun to go to restaurants with our non-swimmer friends who may or may not be counting calories.
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Yeah but they were suited and tapered.
Like a handicap in golf, swimmers have their own code for leveling the playing field.
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Yes! We get ten seconds of rest!
In any given set, the difference between 5 seconds of rest and 10 second of rest is huge. The harder the set, the more important it becomes.
