I got me cozzie wet at last!!!

Jj

The triceps is the one that's opposite the biceps, Merc. The one that wobbles in ladies of a certain age, and me.

[Deleted User]

Ah the bingo wings

Bouncing Barlist

Well done Jj, so if all goes to plan youll be doing 250m in November ;))

Jj

:op

Carl - why is your nose square?

Godzilla

It's a boxer thing

my nose is not square

Bouncing Barlist

Because that is the trademark of the new wheel ive invented for Candy to use in Switzerland next year.

~|-]
+

Well that’s his bike sorted – don’t need to bother with sabotageing the swim, err now then

<ducks back into shed………….shortly followed by a lot of banging clattering and puffs of an unidentified orange gas>

kipjk

"I swam a whole length!

TWICE!!!


(and nearly drowned four times,..."

That was me..August 19th,6;30pm 2000.

It's a slippery slope Jj

M...eldy

If anyone sees me going near a swimming pool you have my permission to reach for your elephant guns...

Doubly Bionic Ironwolf

Jj that's brill! Didn't know l'il leopards could swim much.

Doubly Bionic Ironwolf

Jj, I have a screw kick too when swimming breaststroke, our club trainer told if I was to swim competitively I'd be disqualified. Lucky I only do tri and always race crawl isn't it?

[Deleted User]

Whats a screw kick then ?


and don't say "inmates"

Godzilla

Mercury you can't line up a great gag like that and then steal the punchline - people like myself and Candy would be outta work round here if everybody did that

<goes off to find another amusing one-line for "Whats a screw kick then ?">

Doubly Bionic Ironwolf

In breastroke you should pull both knees up, push down and out, and kick just as your heels come together, that's where the real power for your stroke comes from. A 'screw kick' is when you are kicking before your heels come together. I had to practice a lot under the coach's eagle eye, being yelled at all the time, before I got it.
Poor explanation I know but it's the best I can do. You need Pantman for the scientific low-down.

Godzilla

Anything they like 'cos they are harder than nails?

everyone's a bloody commedian huh

Jj

I've always thought the breaststroke kick to be frightfully unladylike, actually.

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I always thought I did that 'cos I'd broken me leg when I was a nipper and one was stronger than the other

Jj

Heh.

I did it again! I went swimming!!

300m this time!

jolly wet. And I broke a nail and forgot me knickers.

[Deleted User]

jolly wet..... honestly

[Deleted User]

Well done Jj )

Have booked myself in for laser eye surgery on 10 september, will be able to swim 6 weeks after that, an opportunity to take up the hobby I used to love!

Jj

'lo eddum! )

Tara, that's great news about your eyes.

Thing is, with the swimming - and cycling - I have nothing to 'go back to'. Never been able to do either. (

Never EVER had a bike, so never learned how to ride one. I'm still convinced people don't believe me.

AndrewSmith

i believe you, my sister in law is the same. she was not allowed one as a kid and now at 25 she cannot get up the confidence to learn.

Jj

And I'm even a couple of years older than her!!

:oD

AndrewSmith

just a couple!
is that cat years?

Jj

[twitches tail warningly and adjusts evil-looking goggles]

AndrewSmith

all i meant was that seeing as cats have nine lives and they have to fit those lives into one life and that means that for every one human year there must be nine cat years and that if you are just a couple of years older than 25 and that if those couple of years were cat years and not human years then that would make you
err....




25.22222 years old.

[Deleted User]

good recovery.

Jj

¦oD

[Deleted User]

I can't ride a bike either Jj so you're not the only one!

I had a bike when I was ickle but my parents gave it away when I was on holiday with relatives one summer (oh the trauma!). Have since tried to get on one of my son's friends bikes and fallen off somewhat ungracefully, think it comes from being a rather unbalanced individual haha.

By the way, have input my laser surgery costs into my expenditure spreadsheet and my boyfriend is having a mini freakout session!

Reckon it'll be worth it though )

Doubly Bionic Ironwolf

Jj - my sister-in-law is 46 and just learned to ride a bike after years of being scared to - as hubby and both kids ride, John and I do too, it was finally a case of if you can't beat 'em, join 'em - the last day of August is a bike day here in our area, the main road (Deutsche Weinstrasse) is closed to cars all day, about 120km. Everyone bikes or in-line skates up and down as far as they want, and there's lot of wine stands, food points, and music along the way. So Mary decided she's had enough, especially as her youngest now rides with the rest of us.

Jj

lol

don't know if wine stands would help my cause!


But that sounds fab, IW. Can someone organise one here, please? And well done to your sis-in-law!!