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A Few Pictures From Saturday On Deck

I took a few pictures with my iPhone at the SPMA swim meet at UCLA on Saturday.  Here are a few of them.

Ahh...morning on deck.  They had a pretty cool score/time board.

 

Then it was time to turn in my event card.  Yeah I sandbagged my times.  Added 20 seconds to my 800 and 1 or 2 seconds for everything else.

 

Next up is Rob from Robaquatics LINK after doing a sprint 25 during the second warm up.

 

After my 800 I switched from my Blueseventy suit to my Splish suit.  So pink and shinny!

  

But I wasn't the only swimmer in pink.  In this picture you can almost make out the guy in lane three with the pink suit. 

  

After the 800 Free, 50 Back, 100 Fly and 100 Back I decided to scratch the 50 Fly.  But I still had to swim the 50 Fly in the relay.  Here I am waiting for this damn day to end.

  

Ahhh...tacos!  Done and Done!

 

Avalon's Floating Feng Shui Skyline Pool

At the Avalon Hotel in Gothenburg, Sweden they have a pool that can be viewed amid the skyline of the city.  According to Luxist:

Look up when you arrive so you catch the flash of blue that is the rooftop swimming pool. (Hopefully no one's in it, as this isn't the most flattering view of most bodies.) This design-conscious hotel is built around the principles of feng shui, which means that you'll find fountains, wind chimes, and rounded edges inside -- the right angles between the carpet and the wall in the hallway, for instance, are lined with what looks like koosh-ball pelt.

  

Elsewhere in Sweden are various other Feng Shui water influenced hotels including a floating hotel.  Read more at Luxist

Dog Days of Summer

This is the cutest pix.  These are Jason Calacanis’s dogs. Jason an internet start up'er  posts photos of his cute doggies direct from Mahalo.com.  photo from jasoncalacanis.posterous.com

Rasmus Kaessmann Photography: Water Polo

Check out German photographer Rasmus Kaessmann and his incredible underwater Water Polo shots at kaessmannphotography.com LINK

The $8500 Monthly Lap Pool Rental

For just $8,500 a month you can rent this nice little lap pool in Los Feliz.  With the pool comes with:

The main house was originally designed by Gregory Ain - featuring signature details such as clerestory windows, sliding wall, bright open floor plan, indoor - outdoor flow. The separate steel beamed guest house w/ polished concrete floors was designed by Pierre Koenig this century (one of his last projects) & overlooks a refreshing lap pool.

I don't know if it's even 25 yards but they did paint a black line down the pool but no T on either side.  Guess the owner doesn't do flip turns.  See the ad on craigslist LINK source curbedLA

Some Humor...

I've been hitting the gym pretty hard and well I got a six pack for all my hard work...

from the failblog.org

Chlorine Dreams

source:  nasty tom's internet dumpings

Reaching out by Matt Osgood

Check our Matt Osgood's Flickr Page for more great pictures

Roma 2009

The 13th FINA World Championships will be held in The Foro Italico Complex in Rome from July 18th to August the 2nd.  This is an illustration of what the pool will look like when construction is done.  Check out the Fina Rome Website LINK

Underwater ice hockey