Yipee ….a Sunday swim in Autumn and a celebration of all those good sort who swam some incredible lengths over Summer.
A whopping 125 people qualified over summer for the 6km badge and 41 for the 10km. Well done to all of you!
We headed to Royal Far West to congratulate them all.
Best blog smile!
Are these two really smiling or are they grimaces?
“You can fool many some of the time, but only one (Rainer) ALL of the time” Shaun Denton 22 March 2015.
Apparently down at B&B Central, two regular swimmers have been competing and racing back from Shelly Beach after one (let’s call him Lips) called the other a Dugong (let’s call him Shaun or DWSS) in a slightly err not so complimentary way (when referring to his swim). I love dugongs, they should not be insulted this way!
Enter our characters – here Rainer, or as we known him Lips. This is a photo of him in one of his unassuming poses. A lovable quick witted German who had worked on his stroke correction, many, many, times.He loves getting in the blog, so much so, I had to give up some of my Sunday reporting to give him a turn sometimes – appearing and blogging, he loves it!
Shaun, our other contender (affectionately also known as Jack Nicholson) here with his special go faster diet of seaweed, apparently reckons he has special powers and can whisper to dolphins. Hence his nickname “dolphin whisperer” or DWSS.
Sterling helping Shaun prepare for the final race today.
Lips is perplexed………how can this happen?
Answer: The French Kick
The French kick is known by all B&B’ers, but not to our Lips.
Shaun has also been on a special diet of seaweed. It’s known for its go faster effect. Shaun has been sharing his tips with Lips and basically been winding him up about his improvement and the racing wins.
Lips in response to Shaun’s speed, has taken on extra coaching, discarded the rashie and tried to understand the French kick.
BUT Shaun has not been practising his swimming, but his running!
Jumping out of the water just after their ‘race’ starts and running to Half Way. Jumping in again and swimming in front of Lips to South Steyne.
The badge ceremony participants were here not only to get their badge, but the Big Reveal. How would Rainer react?
It was revealed to Lips that the races were all a hoax and 230 people knew about it also. Here’s how to fool Lips……
So Lips has believed that he is getting slower in the water, and he wasn’t.
Here’s a snap from the reveal.
To help members of the B&b keep on top of the antics, the Facebook page was set up. Racing Rainer, and plenty of tips included.
The FB page has now been made public and can you can access it here.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/657434121050241/
Until today, Rainer had no clue about it! It was a closed group that had 230 members all discussing the cheating that Shaun had taken part in and how to fool Rainer.
There has even been a film made about this frivolity!
Certificates were presented at the badge ceremony and Lips took a while to click that he had been the butt of one big joke!
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Little Sarah even changed her flights to be at the big reveal!
It’s lovely to see, despite all of this they are still friends.
Whitewater Dinner
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Signing off Snorkles
Stats:
6km badge holders -125
10km badge holders – 41
Temp: 23.4
Racing Rainer FB members 230
No of B&B’ers that knew that the race was a joke: 230
No of fooled people who had no idea: 1. Name: Rainer.
Don’t worry Rainer, you are still the funny one……
Swimmers: 170
New:19
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11 comments
LSA aka HKTQ
22/03/2015 at 11:31 am
fun morning and blog:)
Actually, a lot more than 230 knew, but many sensible people are not on fb and not all fbers were joined up…
Great entertainment guys!
DWSSBFTR - Still Slow but faster than Rainer
22/03/2015 at 12:19 pm
Haha great blog Snorks.
Congratulations to all the badge recipients, awesome effort.
Today’s stats were extra special.
In fairness, no one stipulated it was strictly a swimming race.
Thank you Lippy for being such a sport.
Thank you to all those who have contributed to the propaganda with special mention to
Snorks who suggested we look at a special diet
Woodsy and Sarah who together, we came up with the French Kick
Snorks, you forgot to mention the Racing Rainer coffee cups, fridge magnets and children’s toys.
DWSSBFTR - Still Slow but faster than Rainer
22/03/2015 at 12:21 pm
A special thank you to the hundreds of swimmers who kept a tight lip as to the goings on.
Lainey aka E-laine
22/03/2015 at 12:49 pm
Great blog Snorkles. I’m sure Rainer will be thankful to you for making him speedier DWSS. If you want to keep the DWSSBFTR tag you’ll have to do a proper race watched by us all. Good underwater photos for such a choppy swim Snorks. Yes I saw the cuttlefish too!
Elizabeth
22/03/2015 at 1:04 pm
It was very choppy today. I am grateful for the blog photos as it was all I could to just swim to and fro and did not see much.
Lips
22/03/2015 at 1:58 pm
Oh Shaun! Well played..
Have to admit, I’m still confused as to what is real. Was your chest hair real? Lucy having a baby? Rusty’s tight pants? It’s all a haze.. my head’s still spinning.
Off for another stroke correction session with Swedish Sarah now. Too late to cancel. What a waste of time!!!
Jenny :)
22/03/2015 at 2:07 pm
Very inspiring morning witnessing all of those har earned badges being awarded. My goals are set for WWW and a summer 6km & 10km. Great pics in the blog today of the sea life. :))
Elizabeth
22/03/2015 at 2:52 pm
Well, I think you getting faster after having stroke correction classes is V impressive. I have been attending classes and workshops and carefully studying youtube to improve. Instead I am just getting slower. Soon I will be swimming backwards with my freestyle. Leave the racing to those people on Thursdays
Mariah
22/03/2015 at 3:13 pm
Such a choppy swim. I like your sea life photos
Shelly
22/03/2015 at 5:28 pm
It’s the Dolphin winning by a bottle nose !
Taken like a true sportsman, well done Lips ! !
Although, I’m sure Jo & Ava knew !!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlDASJ8IH_c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nra3XGgt7E
Great blog snorkles, you are one of the best bloggers !
Love you all
Shelly
xoxoxo
Shelly
22/03/2015 at 6:00 pm
The unveiling ….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4QDPJg-Z1A