The worst guilt trip

Ok. So lesson of the day? DO NOT make your coach mad.

This weekend, my high school swim team went on a trip for an over night swim camp thing. Apart from having the time of my life, there were also some downers. Like for instance, when your coach is trying to explain your favorite set, people are talking, so you miss the first half of it getting a guilt trip.

So, this set. Its called the animal. It is a series of three fifty's, that gets increasingly faster. The first three are on 1:30, the next are on 1:20, and so on until you hit one minute. then the time decreases by 5's. so that means three on 55, 50, 45, etc. When you can't make the time anymore, you get out of the pool. the last person swimming is the animal. It's my favorite set, and we just had to miss the first half of it. gr.

So my wonderful, patient, awesome coach is trying to explain thins to a group of about 20 teenagers. Lost cause? probably. So while she is doing this, this group of guys in the back just wouldn't be quiet. So she gave up and told us to go back to our lanes to do our thing. We just assumed she meant that we were just going to go start the set, but no. We all went on the first fifty, and when we got back, she told us that we weren't going to do it. So we just sat there in the water, watching the angel Junior Varsity kids swim this set. (our J.V. team is pretty awesome I have to say) So at about when they started the fifty's on 1:10, she told us that if we wanted to swim the set, we could, and if we didn't, we could leave. Thankfully, no one left. We started the set and everything was all better. But for that ten minutes that we weren't swimming, all I can say is that it was torture. I have never just sat in the water like that for ten minutes, watching the good half of the team swim my favorite set. it really wasn't cool. So a word of advice? Don't make your coach mad. They really do know how to make your life miserable.

~Expresso