My freshman year I was convinced to join the swim team by my brother and a couple friends. The swim team has really contributed to my mindset and development as a person, as well as lead me to friends that I would have never met otherwise. Swim season... erm.. pre-season started on monday this week, which explains for my lack of posts -- sorry everyone. Anyways, freshman year I was the worst on the team, I understand people say things like that a lot to be humble but I am not being humble because I was completely and utterly worthless. If anything I was a liability to the team due to the fact that I would slow down the relay teams I was placed in. However, I really enjoyed being on the team and the practices were always kind of fun to me. Sophomore year was another year of learning, I had been training off season a little bit and had some substantial losses of time. I figured out which races I was good at, or not as bad at and just started to work on those. Junior year was a rough year, I had mouth surgery right at the start of season so missed the first two meets and picture day. I started to become bored with swimming and actually talked to my mom about quitting the team, she talked me into staying for a couple more meets and then deciding. Her main argument was that I hadn't been in a meet yet and I was getting bored with practicing for no goal, I am endlessly thankful to my mother for convincing me to stick with it. The rest of the season junior year went really well, I was able to go to all of the big invitationals aside from state. At the end of Junior year I was voted to be one of the captains for the following season. Here we are now, with senior season just starting... I failed to mention that sophomore year I got injured and hurt my right shoulder pretty badly. The injury managed to hang around throughout junior year and I was sick of it, to prevent the annoyance and pain this year I have been conditioning all year long. Practice started monday and I had given myself the thought a co-worker planted in my head: "Today is the first day of the rest of my life." (I was also kind of in a very optimistic mood for other reasons... but thats for another post.) I normally miss out on a few yards in a practice because I need to use my inhaler or stretch my shoulder but I didn't miss a single thing on monday. I have somehow managed to have more fun and enjoy swim more so far this year (the entire three days) than any other year so far, and I can't quite explain why. I also have been able to keep up with some of the faster swimmers this year and am incredibly stoked to see the kind of times I get this year. My coach has already decided to put in the 100 butterfly for the first meet... which is not exactly the ideal race for me but I really want to see the kind time I get. Anyways I just am way too excited for the rest of this season not to blog about it, sorry for my lack of posts... I can't promise they will be more frequent but I will do the best I can.
Anyways, love you guys. Narwhals for life!!!
-UsedtobeSadeeiq
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