So I went to my friend Jonathan's house for a swim today. It's part of my Standard Chartered preparations...I'm supposed to be resting my legs, so instead of running, I took a dip in the pool.
And as with all times you go swimming with a friend, sooner or later, one of you will challenge the other to see who can hold their breath under water longer. I've always lost this, but what the heck, you know? I'm not even good at swimming (which is something I'm hoping to correct by February next year so that I can do a duathalon...)
So anyway, he said go, and we took deep breaths and dived in. 10seconds, 20seconds, and 30seconds, and he's out. What about me? I'm still inside, cool as a cucumber, wet as a fish. I surface and I'm like, "Why you come up so fast?" and he's like "Dude, my lungs are bursting, how come you can hold your breath for so long?"
So we did it again. He surfaces in 30-odd seconds, and 1min20seconds later, I'm still down there. I surface again, and you know, why not try for 1min30seconds, and I tried, and I succeeded. Ownage. I thought I was awesome.
Which brings me to right now. I was going to go on facebook and post something like..."Just when I thought I couldn't get anymore awesome, I find out that I can hold my breath for a really really really long time!" To not feel foolish, I google "average time a person can hold his breath underwater".
The result according to a Time article is...2 minutes.
Turns out I'm not that awesome. I managed to avoid looking foolish on facebook, but I can't help feeling foolish anyway. Sigh, such is life!
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