My wife and I swim at the pool where Michael Phelps trains (which he now owns) (AND YES I HAVE SEEN HIM IN THE LOCKER ROOM, NAKED — JEALOUS??). Anyway, right before the '04 Olympics the Baltimore Sun did a huge feature article about his training regimen and I came down one morning for breakfast and my wife said "Here, read this article," and about two-thirds of the way through it there's an anecdote about how sometimes his training sessions get SO INTENSE that he just pees in the pool, and I was like "AHHH I SWIM IN THAT POOL" and my wife was like "I KNOW, SO DO I." Ever since the two of us have peed in the pool with impunity all the time. We call it "pulling a Phelps."
(Also, did anyone else hear the urban legend as a kid that pools have a special chemical that turns purple when it comes in contact with urine, so everyone would know if you were peeing? Did anyone else believe that, like, longer into adulthood than they probably should have?)
@jfruh Dude my cousin used to swim on his club team. He's actually received a "Good job, Hugh" from M.Phelpy. As long as we're M.Phelps dick-measuring.
@Matt Well, to be honest, I only saw him in the nude from behind, so all I could measure was his freakishly muscled lower back. DId you know that humans even *had* muscles in their lower back that could theoretically become "ripped"?
(Also I like how everyone commenting here, myself included, apparently failed to click through on the link, which helpfully explains that the famous urine-detecting chemical doesn't really exist, or at least isn't used in pools because there would be way too many false positives.)
@jfruh I used to work with a lot of triathletes. And it was well-known that among the elite Iron Man competitors, no one would ever stop to pee, and a few would even crap themselves on their bikes. It's called a "rolling rest stop."
@jfruh The Awl said that "you probably won't get caught" and I like to believe everything they tell me that I want to believe. So no linky clicky for me.
Balk brand swimming trousers.
@sorry your heinous I have Coors Light swim trunks. When the mountains turn blue, I peed in your pool.
My wife and I swim at the pool where Michael Phelps trains (which he now owns) (AND YES I HAVE SEEN HIM IN THE LOCKER ROOM, NAKED — JEALOUS??). Anyway, right before the '04 Olympics the Baltimore Sun did a huge feature article about his training regimen and I came down one morning for breakfast and my wife said "Here, read this article," and about two-thirds of the way through it there's an anecdote about how sometimes his training sessions get SO INTENSE that he just pees in the pool, and I was like "AHHH I SWIM IN THAT POOL" and my wife was like "I KNOW, SO DO I." Ever since the two of us have peed in the pool with impunity all the time. We call it "pulling a Phelps."
(Also, did anyone else hear the urban legend as a kid that pools have a special chemical that turns purple when it comes in contact with urine, so everyone would know if you were peeing? Did anyone else believe that, like, longer into adulthood than they probably should have?)
@jfruh I think I still believe that? (I feel better knowing that Andrew Grun down thar thinks so too.)
@jfruh Dude my cousin used to swim on his club team. He's actually received a "Good job, Hugh" from M.Phelpy. As long as we're M.Phelps dick-measuring.
@Matt Well, to be honest, I only saw him in the nude from behind, so all I could measure was his freakishly muscled lower back. DId you know that humans even *had* muscles in their lower back that could theoretically become "ripped"?
(Also I like how everyone commenting here, myself included, apparently failed to click through on the link, which helpfully explains that the famous urine-detecting chemical doesn't really exist, or at least isn't used in pools because there would be way too many false positives.)
@jfruh: I bet he can crack a walnut with his ass.
@jfruh I used to work with a lot of triathletes. And it was well-known that among the elite Iron Man competitors, no one would ever stop to pee, and a few would even crap themselves on their bikes. It's called a "rolling rest stop."
And to bring this all back to the point at hand:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lOGnKUHlGA
@jfruh The Awl said that "you probably won't get caught" and I like to believe everything they tell me that I want to believe. So no linky clicky for me.