I'ts a Love-Hate Thing

Swimming: immersed in or overflowing with water or some other liquid.

I started swimming when I was 4 years old. Most people here do because, well, we are surrounded by water. Only the talented and driven move on to the swim club. YA RIGHT! Haha! Actually, only the forced stay in past 6th grade (unless your super good which is unlikely).

I was on the swim team from kindergarten to the beginning of 7th grade. I've always had ear problems! About every other month I had an ear infection. Now I can't take some antibiotics because I'm immune to them, but that's besides the point. My ENT doctor told me I had to quit for a while so I can dry my ears out. I was super happy! I had a reason to quit swimming!

At first I didn't miss it at all, but when high school season came around and there was a swim meet in town and I went to watch it I missed it! The warm, chlorine air, the sun shining through the glass windows to the pool, the fun the team was having, all of this got to me! I got passed the missing after a while but then I started to miss it again.

I started up this April. At first I was really slow (which was expected since I hadn't swam for about two years) but I have gotten better. Some times we do fun sets but most of the time they are long and painful!

Here is an example of a set: 12 x 50 free on the :45
This means 12 50 meter (down and back at a 25 meter pool) freestyle and you have :45 seconds for each one. This is a hard set. Most swimmers my age (including me) can do from :25 to :30 second 50 freestyle.

Swimmers are the most committed people I have EVER met!!! You have practice every week day for 2 hours after school then 2 hours on early Saturday morning. If you miss a practice you make it up the time later (well most of the time you do! haha!).

Anyways, swimming is one of my favorite hobbies yet it's one of my worst enimies...but that's the relationship. It's a love-hate thing.