GDT: PREDS @ CANES: The pre-season finale

[geehaad]

This is going to seem really silly when we find out that Darling is actually injured.

 

[DaveG]

I annoy everyone around me every few weeks or so when someone brings up running, and I start singing the praises of swimming for cardiovascular exercise. it's literally the best method of exercise in the world. you utilize pretty much every muscle in your body when you do it right, and with practically zero impact on your joints. and submerging your face in the water compels you to develop rhythmic breathing which is a huge part of the point in the first place.

Swimming is fun for me but I find the pool is always super crowded, so you have to share lanes or even take turns to swim laps, unless you can find a pool that opens at like 4 or 5 AM which still sucks. That's still probably better than swimming in the ocean or lake which always makes me anxious or scared of brain eating amoeba or whatever else is out there.

You're both right on this one. In an ideal situation there's just no better cheap exercise out there. But I say this as someone that was good enough to be an NCAA level swimmer: you couldn't pay me to go in a public pool during open swim hours more often than not.

Sharing lanes is no big thing to me unless it's only one or two lanes open and we're just in a situation where 5-6 people are trying to share lanes and one person is just so much faster than the other person/people in that lane that it becomes an obstruction.

And of course there's the issue where kids can be zero f***s given and still play around in the lane area even if they're not swimming laps.

 

[Unsustainable]

I hit a brick wall lifting, found out my boys went on strike.

I am doing cardio and started yoga for now till I get a few pounds off, I’m at 200, down from 235ish.

 

[tarheelhockey]

I annoy everyone around me every few weeks or so when someone brings up running, and I start singing the praises of swimming for cardiovascular exercise. it's literally the best method of exercise in the world. you utilize pretty much every muscle in your body when you do it right, and with practically zero impact on your joints. and submerging your face in the water compels you to develop rhythmic breathing which is a huge part of the point in the first place.

The problem with swimming is the part where you sink to the bottom and die

 

[The Faulker 27]

The problem with swimming is the part where you sink to the bottom and die

Hello darkness my old friend

 

[vorbis]

FWIW before I moved out of Raleigh I was at the Pullen Park pool 2-3 times a week. almost never had to share a lane, and literally never did I have to share a lane with more than one other person. I did have to routinely walk around 70+ year old guys using the hand dryer in the locker room to air out their scrote though. just the way it goes sometimes.

 

[geehaad]

I did have to routinely walk around 70+ year old guys using the hand dryer in the locker room to air out their scrote though.

I know I'm older than most of you, but I am not 70 years old!

 

[CandyCanes]

Less than 48hrs until opening night. So faulking pumped! LET'S GOOOOOOOOO!!!

 

[Wolfpuck]

The problem with swimming is the part where you sink to the bottom and die

Is that really so bad?

There are no hcanes in the void of nonexistence.

 

[Penaltykiller17]

FWIW before I moved out of Raleigh I was at the Pullen Park pool 2-3 times a week. almost never had to share a lane, and literally never did I have to share a lane with more than one other person. I did have to routinely walk around 70+ year old guys using the hand dryer in the locker room to air out their scrote though. just the way it goes sometimes.

I used to work at that pool a long time ago. The lanes were always open there, especially during the day.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

The problem with swimming is the part where you sink to the bottom and die

Ugh tell me about it, that always happens to me.

 

[Lempo]

Is that really so bad?

There are no hcanes in the void of nonexistence.

Is the void of nonexistence a double negative?

philosoraptor.jpg

 

[Lempo]

The problem with swimming is the part where you sink to the bottom and die

Wise man says: float, like a butterfly.



(the internet needs thing to automatically turn songs like they were heard in underwater)

 

[Roboturner913]

I did have to routinely walk around 70+ year old guys using the hand dryer in the locker room to air out their scrote though. just the way it goes sometimes.

Guessing you had to take a wide berth, my junk hangs down at least a foot and I'm only in my early 40s. I'd imagine by 70 it'll be a lot more. As strong as some of those dryers are, I'm thinking you'd need at least a four-foot radius to be assured of your safety.