i keep sitting at 28 secs on my 50 and 1:04 for my 100 fr. its annoying, i wanna drop somethin.
but i was thinking yesterday while jumping in the chilled water at Cocoa Beach's Rec Center....
swimmers...
pretty much, we have a love-hate relationship with our chosen sport.
it hurts like crap. it's cold almost all year and it's only refreshing in the late spring and summer. we have hideous tan lines that are virtually impossible to get rid of. we eat soooo much and we can't hardly help it. there are times when you stop dropping seconds off your time and you start dropping tenths of a second, and that's when it gets annoying. caps are annoying; they leave tan lines and they hurt. the only time i've found them useful is in the winter when they help keep you 1 degree warmer. if you are blonde, your hair turns anywhere from green to blue, and if you're darker haired it goes blonde and then to the green-blue. and everyone SWEARS you dyed your hair when you didnt. "oh well you used sun-in then!" nope. sure didnt. and no one believes you.
girls won't shave their legs for weeks and weeks before a meet and we get teased a LOTT when we happen to wear shorts. guys get teased for shaving their legs for a big meet. and the funny thing is that it CAN help. swimming sucks because it's 90% physical and 10% mental in PRACTICE, but in a meet (where it counts) it's 10% physical and 90% mental. it's super hard to psych yourself. we get up at the butt crack of dawn for practice in the mornings and even earlier for warm up before a meet. and then there's always those people that say swimming is 'easy', even though they haven't swam competitively one day in their life; even though they haven't attended ONE of your practices, ever. they 'can still say that because when youre swimming you dont sweat' (though if you do swim, you know you sweat in the pool.). jerks.
don't get me wrong, i love swimming a lot. i just don't know why.
swimmers, you don't get enough compliments or acknowledgement to your sport. swimming is a really tough sport, and we work HARD to drop one second in a race that only lasts about 30 seconds (more or less) you know that one turn, or a bad start can cause you a race. the difference between 8th place and 1st is, at times, a second and a half. you can get DQ'd for hitting the wall a tiny bit sideways with one arm slightly in front of the other, or for shifting your weight on the block.
so, to the swimmers of the world who put up with all this crap and who still show up at practices and meets every single day, i want to congratulate you. keep workin' really friggin hard.
and just think. when the world floods again, we will be the ones that survive ;)
but i was thinking yesterday while jumping in the chilled water at Cocoa Beach's Rec Center....
swimmers...
pretty much, we have a love-hate relationship with our chosen sport.
it hurts like crap. it's cold almost all year and it's only refreshing in the late spring and summer. we have hideous tan lines that are virtually impossible to get rid of. we eat soooo much and we can't hardly help it. there are times when you stop dropping seconds off your time and you start dropping tenths of a second, and that's when it gets annoying. caps are annoying; they leave tan lines and they hurt. the only time i've found them useful is in the winter when they help keep you 1 degree warmer. if you are blonde, your hair turns anywhere from green to blue, and if you're darker haired it goes blonde and then to the green-blue. and everyone SWEARS you dyed your hair when you didnt. "oh well you used sun-in then!" nope. sure didnt. and no one believes you.
girls won't shave their legs for weeks and weeks before a meet and we get teased a LOTT when we happen to wear shorts. guys get teased for shaving their legs for a big meet. and the funny thing is that it CAN help. swimming sucks because it's 90% physical and 10% mental in PRACTICE, but in a meet (where it counts) it's 10% physical and 90% mental. it's super hard to psych yourself. we get up at the butt crack of dawn for practice in the mornings and even earlier for warm up before a meet. and then there's always those people that say swimming is 'easy', even though they haven't swam competitively one day in their life; even though they haven't attended ONE of your practices, ever. they 'can still say that because when youre swimming you dont sweat' (though if you do swim, you know you sweat in the pool.). jerks.
don't get me wrong, i love swimming a lot. i just don't know why.
swimmers, you don't get enough compliments or acknowledgement to your sport. swimming is a really tough sport, and we work HARD to drop one second in a race that only lasts about 30 seconds (more or less) you know that one turn, or a bad start can cause you a race. the difference between 8th place and 1st is, at times, a second and a half. you can get DQ'd for hitting the wall a tiny bit sideways with one arm slightly in front of the other, or for shifting your weight on the block.
so, to the swimmers of the world who put up with all this crap and who still show up at practices and meets every single day, i want to congratulate you. keep workin' really friggin hard.
and just think. when the world floods again, we will be the ones that survive ;)
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