And the swimmers are off!
Splashing into the pool, stroke after stroke making it to the end of the pool with a flip turn then popping out of the water and seeing their arms and legs come in and out of the water pushing back the water, the smell of chlorine in the air, ahhh a swim meet.
Swimming is just one of many sports but it's the most appealing sport I've tried. I've come across many sports but I've only token a couple serious, for example I did badminton during gym and I would never try out for that sport or take is serious, it's like speed walking, it's dumb.
Sports just give me something to do after school and I like that because I don't like being home, I don't have a life and I'm just piling on fat sitting on my couch so why not. It keeps me out of trouble too, keeps me on track since I have to have good grades to compete and it's cool to have good grades, be in a sport and have a job. Makes me feel super human because somehow I'm managing all these things at once.
I used to do soccer but then I realized soccer sucks and its for chumps so I stopped and wanted to try new things so I did swimming. I don't know how I did it but I somehow made it through the whole season and was sorta good at it and had fun!
I remember the meets the most since they were the most nerve racking. The bus rides to away meets were the best, I couldn't even be nervous cause the girls would having me in tears from laughing and when we would take the bus back home, we'd be farting and throwing food at each other, they were just so random. The actual meets would leave me scared shitless. Getting up on the diving stand, hearing the beep to dive in made me feel like I was ganna poop out all my insides and coach always made me do the most random events! I'd beg coach to put me out of the 300 and the 200 but he'd just ignore me and told me if I didn't stop complaining he'd put me in the 500. Even though I would be having a panic attack before the event, the girls would always be cheering me on and calming me down.
Being in a sport has giving me so much more drive, I used to be one of those kids who just went home after school and never really did anything. Being in a team and surrounding myself with people with so much drive and morale, it just stuck on me. I just want to take every opportunity there is to provoke something in me that makes me a better person, improve upon myself and know it was all worth it.
*Trope
Aw, I didn't know you were the swim team... I guess because that was pre-strike. maybe I did know it and just forgot. Swimming was my favorite part of high school. And reading this makes me think that some things never change - the bus rides to away meets were awesome, I remember my first meet ever, sophomore year, I had to swim the 200 even though I was terrible at it and we were at GBS and I lost by a LOT. And girls who are swimmers are better friends than girls who are not. Just saying. Your writing obviously brought up all sorts of memories for me - awesome post.
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