Monday July 2, 2007 was my first day of USS Swim Team. It was pretty fun, we did kind of a 4th of July work out where the coach of the Team (Kenny) split us up by lanes and the lane that I was in were the British and we would would have to swim fifties (two laps back and forth) of a certain stroke, and if you couldn't do it, or you were one of the last people to come back you were "dead" So people in the "graveyard" would have to do 20 push-ups (personally I have a hard time doing push-ups, and if I did "girl push ups, then my knees would cry really bad basically, so I did arm pushups where you put all on your body weight in your arms and yea that is what you would do, guys don't like it as much as girls do to tell you the truth, but, they are awesome!), but any ways, and yea, that was pretty fun. On Tuesday, we were all Colonials, and were supposed to "sneak" up to the British and we did "lung busters" where we would hold our breath and try to swim across the pool with out taking a breath(of course this takes practice) and do breaststroke kick under the water (yes, I think we looked like frogs pretty much). then we did something totally random, we had to do 50 X's 50's but did 30 instead because we ran out of time. But, yea, we had to 10 of our choice of stroke, 10 50's freestyle, 10 choice, and 10 fly, then 10 Freestyle, but only did 30. and if we got to Fly, I would have died really (not really), Fly is my worst stroke, and I don't do it really well at all. So I would have done Freestyle the whole time because that is the fastest stroke, and you get it done faster.
Last year, The High School Swim team usually does 200 lap swim-a-thon where all the swimmers had to swim 200 laps in two hours or less, and we had to go around to get pledges from people in our neighborhoods, friends and family. So On the day of the Swim a thon on my junior year, I beat my time from my sophmore time( on my sophmore year, I didn't finish I only swam the two hours really and got 164 laps or something like that), and I finished at and hour and 40 min. I was so happy, but very exausted ready to go home at 3:00 in the morning(Swim a thons were usually over nighters and on a weekend so we can have our rest, and so we wouldn't miss any school). I hope we can do that again this year and drop my time from that, but I heard that we might not do it for my senior year, I was so mad. But, if we do, I am going to finish and beat my time!
