Frazz17 hrs · Sarah Thomas is a truly inspiring athlete and human. The fact that she’s a friend of a friend inspires me to attempt some name-dropping, which really needs one less degree of separation to work at all, so, OK, that’s not working right now, is it? She’s inspiring because of her talent and perseverance, which are hardly limited to but perhaps most visible in the arena of ultradistance swimming. This past September, she vaporized expectations by swimming across the English Channel and back, and over again, and back again. She swam for 54 hours and 10 minutes. A couple of years before that, she broke the world record for longest continuous swim, going 104.6 miles in 67 hours and 16 minutes. It’s unthinkable, really.
This past Sunday, I was at the Windsor Aquatic Centre with a few friends to do a Stanford set, which is 100 repetitions of 100 metres (yes, metres; this is Canada) on a set interval, so 10K but broken up. That set interval starts off feeling way easier than it does toward the end, and during one of the between-laps rests, Doug and I were giving each other the look that said we needed to feel a little less impressed with ourselves and wondering who was going to say something to take care of that. I’m not so good at saying the right thing, but I do a lot of saying the first thing, and I said, “I bet this is just about the speed Sarah Thomas sleeps at.”
That’s not at all what I mean by the relationship between exercising and relaxing, but it was a nice excuse to put in a plug for the Windsor Aquatic Centre, and did I mention that I’m friends with a good friend of Sarah Thomas?
Sanspareil almost 5 years ago
Zzarf!
jpayne4040 almost 5 years ago
“Weird is becoming normal”. I think that every time I listen to the news.
sandpiper almost 5 years ago
Two sides of a coin
Richard S Russell Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Meditation constitutes exercise? [citation needed]
donaldhellis almost 5 years ago
It takes a lot of meditation and endorphins to be a Wings fan this season
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Frazz17 hrs · Sarah Thomas is a truly inspiring athlete and human. The fact that she’s a friend of a friend inspires me to attempt some name-dropping, which really needs one less degree of separation to work at all, so, OK, that’s not working right now, is it? She’s inspiring because of her talent and perseverance, which are hardly limited to but perhaps most visible in the arena of ultradistance swimming. This past September, she vaporized expectations by swimming across the English Channel and back, and over again, and back again. She swam for 54 hours and 10 minutes. A couple of years before that, she broke the world record for longest continuous swim, going 104.6 miles in 67 hours and 16 minutes. It’s unthinkable, really.
This past Sunday, I was at the Windsor Aquatic Centre with a few friends to do a Stanford set, which is 100 repetitions of 100 metres (yes, metres; this is Canada) on a set interval, so 10K but broken up. That set interval starts off feeling way easier than it does toward the end, and during one of the between-laps rests, Doug and I were giving each other the look that said we needed to feel a little less impressed with ourselves and wondering who was going to say something to take care of that. I’m not so good at saying the right thing, but I do a lot of saying the first thing, and I said, “I bet this is just about the speed Sarah Thomas sleeps at.”
That’s not at all what I mean by the relationship between exercising and relaxing, but it was a nice excuse to put in a plug for the Windsor Aquatic Centre, and did I mention that I’m friends with a good friend of Sarah Thomas?