Racing? Really?

So it's Spring Break. As usual, I am working out at the local LA Fitness gym. I was going about my usual work out, doing a 400 for warm up, 2 sets of 3x100 on 1:40 and a 200 IM (it was a short day 'cus I am teaching a friend how to swim later). I finish the first 3x100 and was breathless, when all of the sudden the woman in the lane next to me starts telling me, "you're being so rude, swimming that fast, this isn't the swim team you know, I am 56 and can only go so fast." I thought she was kidding, so I joked back and said, "well, I am only 20, so I think you're doing quite well" and then giggled.

Apparently she wasn't kidding. She started getting even angrier, going on again about how I was so rude and how I was trying to race her and make her feel bad, but that she wouldn't let me make her feel bad because she was a better person than me. The whole thing was so ridiculous. All I could say was, "I was swimming my own set, paying no attention to you, and I have every right to swim as fast as I want when I want as you do." Then I started on my 200 IM.

Seriously, how could someone be that insecure to think that I was trying to race them? The idea is absurd. No one tries to race anyone at the gym -I swim a lot and that has never happened.

It made for an interesting morning, haha. I just couldn't get over the fact that she was acting so ridiculously (in a good way, I was laughing.) I was also proud that I at least came up with something to say back to her.