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The Red Tide Training Trip Tradition

People At The Office Think We're On Vacation

by Libby Garland

When the two swimmers left their shaded hammocks on the beach at Pie de la Cuesta, a village just north of Acapulco, Mexico, the mid-afternoon sun was intense. They decided to avoid the thirty-minute uphill trek to the house where they were staying with their teammates during Red Tide’s annual weeklong training trip. Instead, they hailed one of the Volkswagen Beetle taxis that ply the narrow highway from Pie de la Cuesta to Acapulco.  The driver, on hearing their destination—given in rudimentary Spanish—nodded. “Ah!” he said. “The group on that bus!” All the taxi drivers had noticed the twenty gringos packed into the against-all-odds-still-functioning, jazzily repainted school bus. They couldn’t miss it, given how it stopped all highway traffic four times a day while it maneuvered painfully in and out of the tiny driveway, on its way to and from the city pool. But the taxi driver was curious, not annoyed. “You’re a musical group?” he guessed, doubtless picturing all the gear the bus-riders always toted. No, the passengers explained. Un equipo de natación—a swim team. Of grownups. From New York City.  “Ah.” [Read the rest of Libby Garland's feature article on USMS website]