dagblog - Comments for "Boys and Girls Together"

Boys and girls together Me

cmaukonen — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:37:41 +0000

In reply to Boys and Girls Together

Boys and girls together

Me and Mamie O'Rourke

Get pepper sprayed whenever

We're on the sidewalks of New York

Sorry. I just could not pass it up.

Actually Michael Phelps raced

Donal — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:39:05 +0000

In reply to Why not use some sort of

Actually Michael Phelps raced Shaquille O'Neal doing just that. Also, Shaq and three elite women swimmers swam a medley relay against Phelps.

Handicap: Each race had its own different handicap (race 1 - Shaq swam 25m while Phelps swam 50m with a 5s. head start; race 2 - Shaq, Dana Vollmer, Rebecca Soni, and Ariana Kukors each swam a 50m segment of a 200m medley relay, while Phelps swam an individual 200m medley; race 3 - Shaq swam 50m while Phelps swam 75m).

Winner: Michael Phelps (2 out of 3 races)

Problem is, these guys aren't consistently better than the girls. They just have muscles for the sprints that girls don't have. Muscles can help a lot in sprints. I once raced in the same heat as a weightlifter who had only started swimming a few months earlier. His GF swam with us. He beat me by 0.2 sec in the 25 yard free, but lost by ten or twenty seconds in the 200 yard free. 200 and over is more about good technique and stamina than raw power.

Why not use some sort of

EmmaZahn — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:14:39 +0000

In reply to Boys and Girls Together

Why not use some sort of handicap like in golf? It could be based on where on the continuum between XX and XY the competitors are. It could also be a great way to learn more about the genetics of our species.