Trials, Tributaries: Swimming, Brimming, Skimming...

Barely: As all those wearing the barest of minimum, spelled out "S-p-e-e-d-o" Luckily, these wearing such attire had a natural covering that just about matched, what we saw when they...

Skimmed the surface...barely: As in about 8.2 feet above the actual surface of the original surface of Lucas Oil Stadium, one which was 'retro-fitted- for the occasion...one that usually hosts American football, most often on Sundays. Lucky for them, the ones that came aspiring to make the U.S. Swim Team and a trip to Pairs the next month, the surface that they "barely skimmed the surface" so as to make minimal waves, and otherwise make haste, the so-called "pro-turf" which has been softened up some over the years, could have still caused more friction than the chlorinated water that the highly trained "Olympic hope-fills" glided into, off of what are called the "blocks" -- the technology of which has evolved almost as much as turf itself, so as to get the most "Oomph!" out of each start -- otherwise, as the instructional video instructs, swimmers would have to push of the, in this case, a "make shift" wall, which could be...well, a bit slippery...

Making waves, ripple effects: Barely, once again, from the swimmers (if they do it right, according to the years and years of training). As they almost, as it seems to us at home, glide through the carefully calibrated H20 with "the greatest of ease" (another soaring image come to mind?). Accompanied by the usual quotes expected from such an event -- "So glad I made it this far...hope to better tomorrow, I am thankful, grateful for my coaches, parents, teammates, the latter of which I sure hope to accompany to..." NO, what was really making waves was the pool itself, given not only how much water it was able to contain as in about 2 million gallons which, if all released at once, would have sent the record breaking crowd scurrying, I mean swirling for the exits...

Recycling: How many of you out there in the viewing audience asked, "where did this two million gallons get pumped in from...where will it go after...?" No? Well, I'm here to inform you that, in addition to this being a sort of recycled trial, as in about every 100 years, a coinciding of Olympic Swim trials in Indy, on the way to Paris, the "watered down" version, is that the water that was taken from the near-by White River (apologies to boaters, baiters, that found themselves "grounded") -- water that will, according to the planners, be returned after being treated ("it will be better than when we borrowed it...") partly through removing not only the chlorine, but all the "body fluids" 😝...Taking us full circle...from...

Surf to Turf.