Small World Swedish Swim Greetings

"Stanford Masters?" the man behind me asked.

I was standing at the entrance to the Eriksdalbadet pool in Stockholm this morning. I turned around and it was Tony Svensen, once and future Stanford Masters swimmer and tri-athlete.

Small world indeed! What fun. Tony's been on special assignment in Sweden for the past two years, but he looks forward to returning to Palo Alto and swimming with his Stanford Masters buddies.

Eriksdalbadet is a classic 50 meter outdoor community pool. We figured that (Stanford Masters teammate) Par Arvidson must have held all the pool records here in the late 1970s. (Par is from Sweden and won the 100 meter butterfly at the 1980 Olympics.)

Above is a photo of Tony and me. We swam in the "Bana for snabbsim" (or fast lane). It was a lot of fun!

Comments

[Mark McGuinness]

So it's not just a small world on the internet! Your post reminded me of this great talk by Andrew at Northern Planner - he delivered it as a presentation at the wonderful Interesting2007 conference and summarised it on his blog.

[Roger von Oech]

Thanks for the link Mark. I enjoyed your recent posts about evaluating ideas.