[we measured] my skin folds and weight and they were the best they've ever been,
They measured his skin folds! Is this what happens when one moves to Australia? I think you'd better swim more before you leave, ogged.
They also seem to hate cyclists so you would fit in just fine.
A friend got a grant to write a musical about aboriginal people in Australia, having never written a musical or studied the people before. Apparently he played White Pick-up Truck for a month, which entails chugging a canned jack-and-coke each time you see the titular vehicle from your front porch. Great country.
The race itself was pretty intense as well. Now who dares say that swimming is not a "real" sport. I recall John Kinsella* describing in a magazine article how rough things were on the professional open water circuit where he swam for a while in the 70s.
I had no idea they had added an open water event to the Olympics.
*Who attended the high school in Illinois synonymous with swimming excellence.
that spending a lot of time in salty water makes you bloated
Not sure how "salty" the water in the river* in Seville was, but the bloat after open water is most likely correct.
*They have one hell of a nice bridge there.
Clearly he needs to spend more time chugging and barfing Gatorade.
Clearly he needs to spend more time chugging and barfing Gatorade.
It's so nice to know that people not only read the swimming posts, but absorb their important lessons.
Plus, they're totally sexist.
True. This explains why the average man in
of Sydney refuses to have sex with women,
preferring to have a friend... um... 'measure his skin folds'.
7: Thought the same thing, especially per this from the 2nd article o'ed linked. Additionally, Hackett had reportedly downed three liters of fluids within two hours of his 10K race in Seville.
Curious. Why would salt-water immersion cause one to get fatter? The linked article says that it's extracellular fluid moving from the blood vessels and into the skin, but that's just water moving around within one's body; there's no added water coming in from the outside. One's skin might puff up, but the internal liquids would decrease. There wouldn't be a net change in a person's overall volume.
If anything, there would be a slight loss of volume, because of water moving out of one's body through the mucous membranes.
But there is something nice about the idea of the swimmers plumping up in the water, like ball park franks.
Well, I grew up next to the ocean, and, as a kid, would often spend literally hours in the water without getting out. There was a point reached that we referred to as waterlogged. The chief symptom of this was sharp pains in the chest when one inhaled. What on earth was this from? Inhaling mist and salt? Or absorbing water all over?
11: I agree. I think there's a LOT of woo out there about what the immersion of the skin can and cannot do.
After you bathe a puppy, they have to pee all the time for hours. Even if they haven't had a drop to drink. I have rejected measuring the puppy's skin folds.
Measure the puppy, Ari. Unless you are against science, empiricism and rationality. Which is it going to be, Ari? Hmm?
What if the puppy is a Shar-Pei. I could be busy for weeks.
16: Nice job covering up your tracks, Wilford Wiggins.
I recently got a digital kitchen scale as a present. It'll be awfully hard to not weigh a baby before/after its bath. Perhaps we should do salt-water baths! (j/k. That sounds like a terrible idea.)
I hear they have terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days in Australia, too.
