Fucking hell, I made that mistake a few days ago.
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This is a problem across all walks of life it seems to me.
I spend my days wrestling with people who are trying to make simple issues very hard to understand.
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But unless you reinvent the wheel, you don’t get paid.
You must mean the circular rotational conservation of momentum of device I have in alpha production for next spring, right?
Winner winner, chicken dinner. I’m all for encouragement but at some point, you, you know, have to train!
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Certified swim snobs need not reply
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Oh my.
The OP has history on this subject too.
Otherwise known as people that can physically swim.
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Bloody hell!!!
3:00/100m???
Is he actually taking the Michael???
“Those purists who believe everyone should be professionally certified on the swim need not respond to this thread.”
That’s a damn good idea!
Like cycling categories.
You have to do a pool based 400 to do a 750 OW sprint, then a 1.5/1.9 OW race before an IM.
Or just do an OW event (race) and use that as a cert?
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Or just don’t cry about the swim bit of a tri if you can’t swim?!
I’ve got shit hand eye coordination, so I don’t play golf or tennis or anything else that requires it. It’s not hard. I don’t ask them to make the holes bigger or the net lower!
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Has been suggested that should have to do some form of qualifier swim for ironman, as so many people turn up having never swam OW before raceday.
Concept of a mandatory half before IM wouldn’t be such a bad idea, but if meant staying with IM Corp then it’s just another way for them to monopolise
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How dare you fail to encourage people to play golf or tennis…for shame!
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If you were going to do anything you’d make the pre-race swim mandatory and just execute anyone who is obviously going to die on race day before they take anyone with them.
But this thread is about the OP being a totally shit swimmer.
Edit: Dammit, they’ve hooked me in, I couldn’t hold back.
Shit that was quite a plot twist!!!
This, though admittedly just an article referenced on Slowtwitch and not one of the often standard slowtwit discussions… just made me laugh. God bless the USA!
Edit - can’t yet post links, but there’s an article linked in a ST post that is titled (the article, not the post): "Former Vernon council candidate suing city over fast swimmers using the slow lane"
First time I’ve ever been called fast in the pool. 
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and on this side of the pond this was posted
https://forum.slowtwitch.com/forum/Slowtwitch_Forums_C1/Triathlon_Forum_F1/Avoiding_social_media_half_truths_and_promotion_of_mediocrity_-_basic_etiquette_rules_needed%3F_P7013733/
Yeh I saw that one and he’s got roundly slagged off. I must be a miserable git as I agreed with most of it 
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Me too. I get tired of the happy clappy well done you stuff as well.