Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Bathing Suits

So mom and I went bathing suit shopping yesterday. We were looking for suits that we could wear to the gym when we swim laps - needless to say, the suits I wore for 10 years while competing are a little shot. I learned one very important lesson. After 10 years of competitive swimming, I have no idea what size Speedo I wear. I'm not kidding. I really couldn't figure it out. You see, here's the problem: when you wore a suit in practice, you generally wore more than one and they were both generally two sizes too BIG. You wanted to create "drag" so that when you actually raced you felt light and had less resistance. However, when you wore a racing suit (and you never, EVER wore this to practice) you bought the suit two sizes too SMALL. In the words of the great John (our coach): "You should have to go to the locker room, suck everything in to get the suit on, waddle out to the blocks, dive in, swim, waddle back to the locker room and peel the suit off". They weren't meant for comfort.

All of this leaves me in a very weird place now. I have no idea what size to wear. I don't want to look totally retarded swimming in suits that are huge with the old ladies, but I also don't want to wear my suit "racing small" where you are so smashed in that you have weird bulges. It was a difficult task finding that perfect in between size.

So today I got to take the company jet to Santa Clara. How cool is that?! I just walked right in, got on the plane and was there. So easy. I want to ride it every day!

Eva, thanks for talking with me in the movie forum. Anyone else care to join? :)

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