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Date Posted: 19:34:15 09/28/02 Sat
Author: Shark
Subject: Swim Practice!

Today's swim practice was weird. First of all, I ran a little late... You know how the drill for when you wake up late. Get dressed in a hurry, run your fingers through your hair. One of my medicines for my allergies had to be taken on a full stomach, but I just ate a muffin and took it. When my Mom drove up to the school, one minute late, a friend informed me that the swimmers were comming out to the track. We started off running laps, which was unusual. Even more unusual, we started off with six laps instead of our usual four. My stomach began to hurt in the fifth lap and I slowed down a little bit, but then I started going again. When I finished my sixth lap, I sat down and stretched out. Then Coach told us, "Get ready for another lap. This time, give it your all!" I think it was because some girls weren't even power walking during the first six walks, and one girl stopped at least once. Well, anyway, I started running as fast as I could for that seventh lap, and it felt great! I felt like I was flying... I wondered if this was what Sonic the Hedgehog felt like when he ran... Corny, but the point is, it felt really cool. Then I felt really bad, and started breathing really hard... This one girl looked at me, not annoyed, just that genuinely concerned "Are you okay?" type look. Then I kneeled on the ground and started to barf. I heard someone, probably Coach, shout "KEEP RUNNING!" and I got up and ran again. Thankfully, I only had about a dozen more yards left. All the kids were like, "Way to go, Shark." "Good job, Shark." Not sarcastically... If it was sarcastic, they hid it very well, and were pretty stupid to say it with the coach right there. Coach lent me his keys and let me wash my face. When I returned his keys, Coach told me he didn't want me to feel embarassed about barfing on the field; that other kids had done it before; it was something to be proud of, because it indicated that I was working hard. I felt a lot better, so I went inside and continued practice.

I remember that when practice was over, my Mom was by the entrance. Her jaw had practically dropped to the floor. Coach must have been telling her what had happened. :-D

I think last week, we were working on swimming an entire lap without breathing. I told my Dad about it, and told him that all though it hurt, I liked it. He likes to joke, and basically summarized the description with this phrase: "It hurt, but it hurt in a good way."

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