Omphhh
One thing i would like to see at swimming training sessions is the presence of music. It's annoying the way they don't, i mean what a way to motivate people like myself. Walking into the pool at 6am to the sounds of Sandstorm by Darude would please me a lot more than walking in to the sound of nothing much at all. Like come on, wouldn't you have more fun swimming to that? Or anything actually, from big bad happy pop songs to rock anthems to Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band to the thumps of the dance classics. They do it other places.
Come to think of it, they did play music once. At Christmas time. We got some Shakin' Stevens at 7am, followed by Slade, Duran Duran & all that sorta thing. But that was on like the 21st December, when Christmas was 4 days away, and everybody was busy thinking about what the big man was going to bring them.
One downside to music at the pool would be that it might screw my concentration at times, i.e. i'd get lost in the music and end up smashing into the wall or something. But who cares?! I rekon the motivation of it would do me better. Or just make the whole thing more enjoyable.
Now i'm just talking randomish crap, so onto other things. If your PC has enough memory & is fast enough, download and run the BBC Climate Change experiment. It runs in the background, doing calculations which will help predict all the climate stuff. I think there are 100,000 odd people round the world doing it, and apparently this is helping the environment, cause it is using less power than their supercomputers use. Even so, it slows down my beast of a PC to a crawl when starting up, which doesn't please myself when i'm trying to get some music through the speakers nice & quickly. But anyways: www.bbc.co.uk/climatechange
Just been watching a lot of Winter Olympics lately, as they make good TV in my opinion. What i like about it is that all the sports done are more like hobbies than jobs, therefore they enjoy it more, and don't need to train til they drop to actually compete. Bobsleigh for example. If you aren't the driver, you just need to push a bit of fibreglass like a tank for about 5 seconds, then jump in and enjoy an 80mph ride down a tube of ice. Everybody from all walks of life do that, which i like. Also, Winter Olympics has Ice Hockey, and that's enough said.
Come to think of it, they did play music once. At Christmas time. We got some Shakin' Stevens at 7am, followed by Slade, Duran Duran & all that sorta thing. But that was on like the 21st December, when Christmas was 4 days away, and everybody was busy thinking about what the big man was going to bring them.
One downside to music at the pool would be that it might screw my concentration at times, i.e. i'd get lost in the music and end up smashing into the wall or something. But who cares?! I rekon the motivation of it would do me better. Or just make the whole thing more enjoyable.
Now i'm just talking randomish crap, so onto other things. If your PC has enough memory & is fast enough, download and run the BBC Climate Change experiment. It runs in the background, doing calculations which will help predict all the climate stuff. I think there are 100,000 odd people round the world doing it, and apparently this is helping the environment, cause it is using less power than their supercomputers use. Even so, it slows down my beast of a PC to a crawl when starting up, which doesn't please myself when i'm trying to get some music through the speakers nice & quickly. But anyways: www.bbc.co.uk/climatechange
Just been watching a lot of Winter Olympics lately, as they make good TV in my opinion. What i like about it is that all the sports done are more like hobbies than jobs, therefore they enjoy it more, and don't need to train til they drop to actually compete. Bobsleigh for example. If you aren't the driver, you just need to push a bit of fibreglass like a tank for about 5 seconds, then jump in and enjoy an 80mph ride down a tube of ice. Everybody from all walks of life do that, which i like. Also, Winter Olympics has Ice Hockey, and that's enough said.
posted by TheNightMonkey at 21:21
2 Comments:
"jump into a fibreglass tank and enjoy an 80mph ride..."
like swimming...where u just jump in a pool and wave ur arms! :P
but the olympics does rock!!!
Listening to the BPB playing through underwater speakers would possibly make me take up swimming at 6am in the morning! Actually, on second thoughts... NO!
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